The Gurdon Institute (officially the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) is a research facility at the
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...
biology.
History
The Institute was founded in 1989 to provide a rich, collaborative environment for scientists working in diverse but complementary specialities in the fields of developmental biology and cancer biology. It receives its primary funding from the
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glaxo ...
and
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organization. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and was formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and t ...
.
In 2004 it was renamed in honour of
John Gurdon
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka ...
, joint winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine. the director is Julie Ahringer and the deputy director is Eric Miska.
Faculty
there are 15 Group Leaders and 2 Associate Group Leaders.
Group Leaders:
# Julie Ahringer
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Andrea Brand
Andrea Hilary Brand (born March 9, 1959) is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She heads a lab investigating nervous system development at the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Physiol ...
#Jenny Gallop
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John Gurdon
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka ...
Tony Kouzarides
Tony Kouzarides (born 17 January 1958), FMedSci, FRS is a senior group leader Gurdon Institute, a founding non-executive director of Abcam and a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge.
Education
Tony did his PhD at thUnive ...
#Hansong Ma
#Eric Miska
#Emma Rawlins
# Ben Simons
#Daniel St Johnston
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Azim Surani
Azim Surani (born 1945 in Kisumu, Kenya) is a Kenyan-British developmental biologist who has been Marshall–Walton Professor at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge since 1992, and Director of ...
#Iva Tchasovnikarova (beginning Summer 2020)
#Fengzhu Xiong
#Philip Zegerman
Associate Group Leaders:
#Martin Hemberg
#John Perry
Alumni
Former Group Leaders:
# Michael Akam
#Enrique Amaya
#Nick Brown
#Rafael Carazo Salas
#Thomas Down
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Martin Evans
Sir Martin John Evans (born 1 January 1941) is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Olive ...
Ron Laskey
Ronald Alfred Laskey (born 26 January 1945) is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher.
Career and research
Laskey was the Charles Darwin Professor of Embryology at the University of Cambridge. In 1991, he co-founded the Wellcome Trust ...
#Rick Livesey
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Anne McLaren
Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, (26 April 1927 – 7 July 2007) was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation (IVF),Nancy Papalopulu
#Eugenia Piddini
# Jonathon Pines
#Jordan Raff
# Jim Smith
#Chris Wylie
# Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz