Martin Charles Raff CBE FRS FMedSci MAE (born 15 January 1938)^[4] is a Canadian/British biologist and researcher who is an Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB) at University College London (UCL).^[5][6][7] His research has been in immunology, cell biology, and developmental neurobiology.^[8][9]

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Martin Raff CBE FRS FMedSci MAE
Born	Martin Charles Raff (1938-01-15) 15 January 1938 (age 86) Montreal, Canada
Alma mater	McGill University (BSc, MDCM)
Known for	Molecular Biology of the Cell
Children	Jordan Raff [Wikidata][1]
Awards	EMBO Member (1974) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003)[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology Developmental neurobiology
Institutions	University College London
Doctoral students	Charles ffrench-Constant[3] Ben Barres[3]
Website	www.ucl.ac.uk/lmcb/users/martin-raff

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Raff was born and educated in Montreal, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1959 and an M.D.C.M. in 1963, both from McGill University.^[10]

Raff was an intern and assistant resident in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal (1963–65) and a resident in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (1965–68). He did postdoctoral research in immunology with Avrion Mitchison at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London (1968–1971), after which he moved to University College London, where he has been since 1971. He served as president of the British Society of Cell Biology (1991–95). He retired from active science in 2002, but he continued to serve on various scientific advisory boards in Europe and America until 2018. After his first retirement, when his grandson was diagnosed with autism, he became interested in the neurobiological basis of autism.^[11][6] He is co-author of two widely used cell biology textbooks: Molecular Biology of the Cell and Essential Cell Biology.^[12]

Raff's son Jordan Raff [Wikidata] is also a scientist.^{[1][15][8][16]}