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

Alain Townsend is a British virologist who is a Professor of Medicine in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine atOxford University.^[1] His laboratory studiesvirology, mainlyinfluenza, but more recentlyebola.

After graduating fromSt Mary's Hospital, London, he went to theNational Institute for Medical Research to studyimmunology.^[2] He received his PhD in 1984, supervised by Brigitte Askonas.^[3]

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

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