John Graham Scaife FRSE (23 September 1934–5 June 1991) was a 20th-century British pioneer of molecular parasitology.
He was educated at Leeds Modern School, where he performed in plays with Alan Bennett.
He then attended the Postgraduate Medical School in London, specialising in bacterial genetics and gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1964.
[2] Scaife returned to Britain in 1968 first (briefly) to the MRC Molecular Genetics Unit in London, then to the University of Edinburgh in autumn of 1968 as a lecturer under William Hayes.
His proposers were E. C. R. Reeve, G. H. Beale, A. E. H. Emery, John O. Bishop, Douglas Scott Falconer and Aubrey Manning.