Julian Davies (microbiologist)

Julian Edmund Davies FRS (born January 1932) is a British microbiologist, professor emeritus, and Principal Investigator of the Davies Lab, at University of British Columbia.[1][2]

Education and personal life

Born in January 1932, Davies earned a B.Sc. in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Nottingham.

Career

His research focuses on the interaction of small molecules, and especially antibiotics, with bacteria. He made important advances in understanding how antibiotics worked and how bacteria become resistant to them, especially the origin of genes for resistance.[3]

Publications

He is the author or co-author of several hundred scientific papers and at least 6 books.[3]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994 and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is a former President of the American Society for Microbiology.[3]

He is a member of the Faculty of 1000.[4]

He has received the American Society for Microbiology Gold Medal, Society for General Microbiology Prize[5], and was the recipient of the Bristol–Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Diseases Research in 1999.

References
  1. "Davies Lab - Principal Investigator | Microbiology & Immunology @ UBC". Microbiology.ubc.ca. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. "Julian E. Davies, Ph.D. - MED - Microbiology Department, University of Minnesota". Med.umn.edu. Archived from the original on 9 October 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  3. "Julian Davies". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  4. Canada. "Julian E Davies: Head of Faculty in Microbiology". F1000. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  5. "Prize Medal". Microbiology Society. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
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