John Todd (British biologist)


John Andrew Todd FMedSci FRS is Professor of Precision Medicine at the University of Oxford, director of the Wellcome Center for Human Genetics and the JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory, in addition to Jeffrey Cheah Fellow in Medicine at Brasenose College. He works in collaboration with David Clayton and Linda Wicker to examine the molecular basis of type 1 diabetes.

Education

Todd received a Bsc in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh, he went on to study a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge supervised by David Ellar which he completed in 1983 with a thesis entitled "Penicillin-binding proteins during growth and differentiation of bacilli".

Awards and Honors