Austin Gerard Smith (born 1960) is a professor at the University of Exeter and director of its Living Systems Institute.
[6] In 1996, he was appointed director of the centre, which became the Institute for Stem Cell Research under his leadership.
[8] Here, he became a director of the Welcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research [9] and later was the director of the new Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute at the University of Cambridge, which was established with 8 million pounds ($12.5 million) awarded by the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council (UK) in 2012.
[3] In 2003, Smith was awarded an MRC Research Professorship[6] and elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
[12] In 2010, he was co-recipient of the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine along with French cardiologist Michel Haissaguerre.