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Ian Tomlinson
FRS FMedSci
Born
Ian Tomlinson
AwardsEMBO Membership (2016)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsColorectal cancer
Genetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh

Ian Tomlinson is a British scientist who is a director of the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham.[2][3][4]

Career and research

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Highlights of Tomlinson's research include the discovery of colorectal cancer genes[5] and kidney cancer predisposition genes that are transferred by Mendelian inheritance.[6]

Awards and honours

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Tomlinson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[7] He is also elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009.[8] In 2013, he was awarded the United European Gastroenterology Research Prize of €100.000.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Anon (2016). "Ian Tomlinson EMBO profile". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  2. ^ "Birmingham researcher awarded Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Science". birmingham.ac.uk. Birmingham.
  3. ^ Hemminki, Akseli; Markie, David; Tomlinson, Ian; Avizienyte, Egle; Roth, Stina; Loukola, Anu; Bignell, Graham; Warren, William; Aminoff, Maria; Höglund, Pia; Järvinen, Heikki; Kristo, Paula; Pelin, Katarina; Ridanpää, Maaret; Salovaara, Reijo; Toro, Tumi; Bodmer, Walter; Olschwang, Sylviane; Olsen, Anne S.; Stratton, Michael R.; de la Chapelle, Albert; Aaltonen, Lauri A. (1998). "A serine/threonine kinase gene defective in Peutz–Jeghers syndrome". Nature. 391 (6663): 184–187. Bibcode:1998Natur.391..184H. doi:10.1038/34432. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 9428765. S2CID 4400728.
  4. ^ Ian Tomlinson publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ^ Tomlinson, Ian; Webb, Emily; Carvajal-Carmona, Luis; Broderick, Peter; Kemp, Zoe; Spain, Sarah; Penegar, Steven; Chandler, Ian; Gorman, Maggie; Wood, Wendy; Barclay, Ella; Lubbe, Steven; Martin, Lynn; Sellick, Gabrielle; Jaeger, Emma; Hubner, Richard; Wild, Ruth; Rowan, Andrew; Fielding, Sarah; Howarth, Kimberley; Silver, Andrew; Atkin, Wendy; Muir, Kenneth; Logan, Richard; Kerr, David; Johnstone, Elaine; Sieber, Oliver; Gray, Richard; Thomas, Huw; Peto, Julian; Cazier, Jean-Baptiste; Houlston, Richard (2007). "A genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for colorectal cancer at 8q24.21". Nature Genetics. 39 (8): 984–988. doi:10.1038/ng2085. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 17618284. S2CID 32896755.
  6. ^ Anon (2019). "Professor Ian Tomlinson FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  7. ^ Anon (2015). "Royal Society Elections". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06.
  8. ^ "Professor Ian Tomlinson". acmedsci.ac.uk. Academy of Medical Sciences.
  9. ^ Drenth, Joost PH (April 2014). "Cutting Edge Science at UEG Week Berlin 2013" (PDF). World Gastroenterology News. Vol. 19, no. 1. World Gastroenterology Organisation. pp. 18–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
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