Alain Townsend

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.

Almamater

• 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) 

Websitewww.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/alain-townsend 

FieldsImmunology 

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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	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

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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]