Caroline S. Hill

Caroline Susan Hill FMedSci (born 21 October 1961) is a group leader and head of the Developmental Signalling Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute.^[3][4][5][2]

Caroline Hill
Hill in 2017
Born	Caroline Susan Hill (1961-10-21) 21 October 1961 (age 63)
Nationality	British
Education	North London Collegiate School
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Spouse	Peter Bradshaw
Awards	EMBO Member (2002)[1] Member of the Academia Europaea (2013) Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences (2015) Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Developmental biology[2] Cancer biology[2] Signal transduction[2]
Institutions	Francis Crick Institute
Thesis	Structural studies of sea urchin sperm chromatin (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Jean Thomas
Website	www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-d-j/caroline-hill

Education

Hill was educated at North London Collegiate School and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in Natural Sciences in 1984.^{[citation needed]} She was an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and then did postgraduate research at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, then known as New Hall, and was awarded a PhD in 1989^[6] for research supervised by Jean Thomas.^[7]

Career and research

Hill moved to the Cancer Research UK (CRUK)^[8] London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) in 1998, to head up the Developmental Signalling Laboratory.^[9] In November 2016, she was interviewed on the BBC World Service, along with the Crick's chief executive Paul Nurse about the future of biomedical research.^[10]

Awards and honours

Hill was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2002^[1] and a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2013.^[11] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences.^[12] In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.^[13]