Profile

Professor Jordan Raff FRS

Headshot of Professor Jordan Raff, a man in a suit and tie

Profile

I studied Biochemistry at the University of Bristol (BSc, 1986), followed by a PhD in the Biochemistry Department, Imperial College, London (1989). Here I started to work on the cell cycle and centrosomes using the fruitfly Drosophila as a model system. I moved to the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (1990), developing live-cell imaging and biochemical methods, still focused on centrosomes in Drosophila. I established my own group as a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge (1994), before becoming the César Milstein Chair of Cancer Biology at The Dunn School of Pathology, and Lincoln College, in (2009). We still study centrosomes and the cell cycle in flies.

College teaching

I don’t currently have any teaching responsibilities at the College, although I do have a role in looking after and advising some of the graduate students who work at The Dunn School.

Position

  • César Milstein Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology