John Andrew Todd (born 23 June 1958) is a British geneticist who is Professor of Precision Medicine at the University of Oxford,^[1] director of theWellcome Center for Human Genetics^[2] and theJDRF/Wellcome TrustDiabetes and Inflammation Laboratory,^[3] in addition to Jeffrey Cheah Fellow in Medicine atBrasenose College.^[4] He works in collaboration withDavid Clayton and Linda Wicker to examine the molecular basis oftype 1diabetes.^[5][6]

Todd was born on 23 June 1958.^[7] He received aBachelor of Science (BSc) degree in biological sciences from theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1980. He went on to study biochemistry at theUniversity of Cambridge, where he was supervised byDavid Ellar, completing hisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1983 with a thesis entitled "Penicillin-binding proteins during growth and differentiation of bacilli".^[8]

• Founding Fellow of theAcademy of Medical Sciences (1998).^[9]
• Honorary Member of theRoyal College of Physicians (2000).^[10]
• Fellow of the Royal Society in (2009).^[11]
• JDRF David Rumbrough Award for Scientific Excellence (2011).^[12]
• Helmholtz international fellow award (2015).^[13]
• Emeritus Senior Investigator at theNational Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (2018).^[14]

• JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory
• Cambridge BioResource
• Profile at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

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