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Biography
Caroline S. Hill (born 21 October 1961) is a group leader and head of the Developmental Signalling Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute.
Education
Hill was educated at North London Collegiate School and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in Natural Sciences in 1984. 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 for research supervised by Jean Thomas.
Career and research
She moved to Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) in 1998, to head up the Developmental Signalling Laboratory. In November 2016, she was interviewed on the BBC World Service, along with the Crick's chief executive Sir Paul Nurse about the future of biomedical research.
Awards and honours
Hill was elected to EMBO in 2002 and to the Academia Europaea in 2013. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences.