Alain Townsend

Professor Alain Townsend FRS FRCP
Alma mater	St Mary's Hospital National Institute for Medical Research
Awards	Canada Gairdner International Award (2000) William B. Coley Award (1989) Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1992)
Website	https://www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/alain-townsend
Academic career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	University of Oxford Howard Hughes Medical Institute Linacre College University of Oxford
Thesis	Recognition by influenza virus specific cytotoxic T cell clones
Doctoral advisor	Brigitte Askonas

Alain Townsend is a British virologist who is a Professor of Medicine in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University.[1] His laboratory studies virology, mainly influenza, but more recently ebola.

After graduating from St Mary's Hospital, London, he went to the National Institute for Medical Research to study immunology.[2] He received his PhD in 1984, supervised by Brigitte Askonas.[3]

Awards

• 1989 William B. Coley Award[4]
• 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society[5]
• 1992 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1992)[6]
• 2000 Gairdner Foundation International Award

References

1. "Prof Alain R Townsend FRS FRCP - Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford".
2. "Gairdner Foundation - Alain R.M. Townsend".
3. Unanue, Emil R (15 February 2013). "Brigitte Askonas 1923–2013". Nature Immunology. 14 (3): 191. Bibcode:2013Natur.494...37O. doi:10.1038/ni.2553.
4. "William B. Coley Award". Cancer Research Institute. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
5. "Alain Townsend - Biography". royal Society. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
6. Louis-Jeantet Prize