DR JORDAN RAFF
Wellcome Cancer Research Centre
University of Cambridge

Cytoskeleton

Jordan Raff studied Biochemistry as an undergraduate at Bristol University. He did his PhD in the Department of Biochemistry at Imperial College London, where he first started to work on cell division in fruit flies. He has continued to work on this problem throughout his scientific career, first as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, and then as a Wellcome Trust funded Senior Research Fellow working at the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Institute in Cambridge. During his time in the USA he was Chair of British Scientists Abroad, a pressure group that campaigns for better Government funding of basic research in the UK. He has a long standing interest in promoting the public understanding of science and regularly gives talks to a general audience on various aspects of science.