Ian Tomlinson
Cancer Genetics and Evolution
Research in a Nutshell
Professor Tomlinson joined the University of Edinburgh in Autumn 2019 as Charles and Ethel Barr Chair of Cancer Research and became the Director of Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre (including Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre) in January 2020. In 2022, following successful joint bid by CRUK Edinburgh Centre and CRUK Glasgow Centre, he also became a Co-Director of the newly formed Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre (jointly with Prof Owen Sansom from Glasgow). He was previously Director of the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham, having worked before that at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, University of Oxford and the Institute of Cancer Research. His research interests lie in discovering and functionally characterising cancer driver genes, especially germline variants that predispose to cancer. He also has a longstanding interest in cancer evolution, derived from his PhD project in population genetics, with a specific interest in the relative contributions of selection and mutation to cancer growth. Ian's work focuses on colorectal cancer, but extends to several other cancer types. He is especially keen to integrate work across a variety of biomedical areas, including human patient cohorts and clinics, animal models of disease and biomathematics.
People |
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| Ian Tomlinson | Principal Investigator, Charles and Ethel Barr Chair of Cancer Research |
| Nagore De León | Post Doctoral Scientist |
| Ignacio Soriano | Post Doctoral Scientist |
| James Wood | Post Doctoral Scientist |
| Albert de Menezes | Post Doctoral Scientist |
| Connor Woolley | PhD Student |
| Joe Ward | PhD Student |
| Harvinder Gala | PhD Student |
| Tiffany Idle | PhD Student |
| Nathalie Feeley | PhD Student |
| Mel Morgan | Scientific Officer |
| Kitty Sherwood | Scientific Officer |
| Chloe Henry | Research Assistant |
| Guler Gul | PhD Student |
| Amy McCorry | Bioinformatician |
| Juan Fernadez Tajes | Bioinformatician |
| Sophie Roper | Post Doctoral Scientist |
| Steve Thorn | Bioinformatician |
Contact
Collaborations
- Professor Malcolm Dunlop, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Richard Houlston, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- Simon Leedham, University of Oxford
- Trevor Graham, Queen Mary University of London
- Andrea Sottoriva, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- David Wedge, University of Oxford
- Tim Maughan, University of Oxford
- David Church, University of Oxford
- Claire Palles, University of Birmingham
- Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona
- Shazia Irshad, University of Oxford
Partners and Funders
- Cancer Research UK
- Wellcome Trust
- Bowel & Cancer Research
Scientific Themes
Cancer biology, cancer genetics, colorectal cancer risk and prevention, cancer evolution, functional genetics
Technology Expertise
Genetic data analysis, genomics, transcriptomics, methylomics, cancer models