John Diffley
John F. Diffley (* 1958 in New York City ) is an American molecular biologist.
Diffley graduated from New York University with a PhD in 1985 and was a post-doctoral student at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 1990 he went to Great Britain as laboratory manager at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (from 2002 Cancer Research UK) in Clare Hall. In 2006 he became Director of Laboratories at Clare Hall and Assistant Director of Laboratories in London. In 2015 he became Deputy Research Director of the Francis Crick Institute .
He is known for researching the exact course of the replication of the genome during cell division, which requires a precise coordination of the various individual replication processes (which start at thousands of different origins of replication in humans ).
In 2016 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize . He has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1998 , is a member of the Royal Society , the Academia Europaea , the European Academy of Cancer Studies, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2003 he received the Paul Marks Award and in 2019 the Canada Gairdner International Award . In 2020 Diffley was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Diffley, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Diffley, John F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American molecular biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |