Tony Kouzarides

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Tony Kouzarides
Born (1958-01-17) 17 January 1958 (age 66)
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Abcam
ThesisA molecular analysis of transformation by human cytomegalovirus (1985)
Doctoral advisorTony Minson[3]
Websitewww.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/~kouzarideslab
royalsociety.org/people/tony-kouzarides

Tony Kouzarides (born 17 January 1958),

FMedSci,[2] FRS[1] is a senior group leader Gurdon Institute,[5] a founding non-executive director of Abcam[6] and a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge.[7]

Education

Tony did his PhD at the University of Cambridge and postdoctoral work at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and New York University Medical Center. His research group at the Gurdon Institute is focused on epigenetic modifications and their involvement in cancer.

Research & Activities

Tony Kouzarides is Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge and a group leader at the Gurdon Institute. He currently holds the following directorships: Director and Co-founder of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, director of Cambridge Gravity and director of STORM Therapeutics.

Tony is founder/director of Cambridge Gravity, an organization for the promotion of science at the University of Cambridge. He is founder, patron and ex-director of a cancer charity in Spain called Conquer Cancer (Vencer el Cancer). He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Cancer Research (UK) and on the Executive Board of the CRUK Cambridge Cancer Centre.

Tony is a co-founder and ex-director of Abcam plc, a publicly trading research reagents company in Cambridge, a co-founder and ex-director of Chroma Therapeutics, of a drug discovery company based in Oxford and a co-founder and current director of STORM Therapeutics, a drug discovery company based in Cambridge.

Awards & Prizes

Kouzarides has been elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, Fellow of the British Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and is a Cancer Research UK Gibb Fellow. He has been awarded the Wellcome Trust medal for research in biochemistry related to medicine (UK), the Tenovus Medal (UK), the Bodossaki Foundation prize in Biology (Greece), the Bijvoet Medal (Holland), the Biochemical Society Award

Novartis Medal and Prize (UK) and the Heinrich Wieland Prize
(Germany).

References

  1. ^ a b "Professor Tony Kouzarides FMedSci FRS". Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b "The Academy of Medical Sciences | Directory of Fellows". Archived from the original on 3 April 2015.
  3. PMID 3024973
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  4. ^ "KOUZARIDES, Prof. Tony". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 March 2015. (subscription required)
  5. ^ "The Kouzarides Lab at the Gurdon Institute". Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Abcam board of directors". Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Professor Tony Kouzarides profile- Cambridge Cancer Centre". Archived from the original on 6 June 2013.
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