Biography
Michael Smith was born in Blackpool, England, and educated at the Arnold School in Blackpool. He went on to receive his PhD in 1956 from the University of Manchester. Afterwards, he did post-doctoral work in Gobind Khorana's Laboratory at the BC Research Council located on the campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. After a short time at the University of Wisconsin, he returned to Vancouver in 1961 and the laboratories of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. In 1966 he was appointed a Research Associate of the Medical Research Council of Canada at the University of British Columbia, where he remained until 1997 when he accepted a cross-appointment at the BC Cancer Agency.
In 1981 he co-founded the biotechnology company ZymoGenetics. In 1987 he founded and acted as Director of the University of British Columbia Biotechnology Laboratory.
Michael Smith married Helen Christie in 1960; they had two sons and one daughter, but separated in 1983.
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