Gerard Ian Evan
FRS,
FMedSci (born 17 August 1955) is a British biologist and, since May 2022, Professor of Cancer Biology
at King's College London and a principal group leader in the Francis Crick Institute. Prior to this he was Sir William Dunn Professor and Head of Biochemistry at the
University of Cambridge
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(2009-2022).
Education
Evan was educated at
St Peter's College, Oxford, where he studied Biochemistry, and
King's College, Cambridge
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, where he was awarded his
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in 1982 for research using
Monoclonal antibodies
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.
Research
Evan does research to the determine the molecular basis of
cancer
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.
Career
Prior to Cambridge, Evan was Royal Society Napier Professor at University College London and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (1988-99), then Gerson & Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professor of Cancer Biology, at
University of California, San Francisco (1999-2011).
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External links
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20th-century British biologists
21st-century British biologists
British biochemists
Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
Living people
Sir William Dunn Professors of Biochemistry
Cancer researchers
Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
University of California, San Francisco faculty
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
1955 births
Francis Crick Institute alumni