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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	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. 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. He received his PhD in 1984, supervised by Brigitte Askonas.

Awards

• 1989 William B. Coley Award
• 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1992 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1992)
• 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

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