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Gerard Evan
Born (1955-08-17) 17 August 1955 (age 69)
Alma mater St Peter's College, Oxford
King's College, Cambridge
Known for Disease Models & Mechanisms
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society (2004)
FMedSci (1999)
PhD (1982)
Scientific career
Fields Cancer
Disease biology
Myc regulator gene
p53 tumour suppressor
Institutions University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
UCSF
Cancer Research UK
Ensemble Therapeutics
Thesis Monoclonal antibodies as reagents for the analysis of cell surfaces (1982)

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 (2009-2022).

Education

Evan was educated at St Peter's College, Oxford, where he studied Biochemistry, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded his PhD in 1982 for research using Monoclonal antibodies.

Research

Evan does research to the determine the molecular basis of cancer.

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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