Allan Bradley Explained

Allan Bradley
Birth Name:Allan Bradley
Fields:Mouse genomics[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Thesis Title:Isolation characterisation and developmental potential of murine embryo-derived stem cells
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373263
Thesis Year:1986
Doctoral Advisor:Martin Evans[6]
Known For:Embryonic stem cells

Allan Bradley FRS is a British geneticist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.[7] [8] [9]

Education

Bradley was educated at the University of Cambridge where he earned Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and PhD[10] degrees in genetics from Trinity College, Cambridge gained while working in the laboratory of Martin Evans.[11]

Career

Following his PhD, Bradley was appointed assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, beginning in 1987 where he was also a Searle Scholar in 1988.[12] Bradley was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 1993 and director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, from October 2000 (preceded by John Sulston) to April 2010, succeeded by Michael Stratton.

Awards and honours

Bradley won a 1994 DeBakey Award[13] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2002. His certificate of election reads:

Notes and References

  1. Donehower . L. A. . Harvey . M. . Slagle . B. L. . McArthur . M. J. . Montgomery Jr . C. A. . Butel . J. S. . Bradley . A. . 10.1038/356215a0 . Mice deficient for p53 are developmentally normal but susceptible to spontaneous tumours . Nature . 356 . 6366 . 215–221 . 1992 . 1552940 . 1992Natur.356..215D . 4348340 .
  2. Dalton . D. . Pitts-Meek . S. . Keshav . S. . Figari . I. . Bradley . A. . Stewart . T. . 10.1126/science.8456300 . Multiple defects of immune cell function in mice with disrupted interferon-gamma genes . Science . 259 . 5102 . 1739–1742 . 1993 . 8456300. 1993Sci...259.1739D .
  3. Guo . G. . Wang . W. . Bradley . A. . 10.1038/nature02653 . Mismatch repair genes identified using genetic screens in Blm-deficient embryonic stem cells . Nature . 429 . 6994 . 891–895 . 2004 . 15215866. 2004Natur.429..891G . 2545884 .
  4. Kile . B. T. . Hentges . K. E. . Clark . A. T. . Nakamura . H. . Salinger . A. P. . Liu . B. . Box . N. . Stockton . D. W. . Johnson . R. L. . Behringer . R. R. . Bradley . A. . Justice . M. J. . 10.1038/nature01865 . Functional genetic analysis of mouse chromosome 11 . Nature . 425 . 6953 . 81–86 . 2003 . 12955145. 2003Natur.425...81K . 4409237 .
  5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20100401121618/http://www.sanger.ac.uk/research/projects/mousegenomics. 2010-04-01. Mouse genomics – Allan Bradley laboratory. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
  6. Watts. Geoff. Martin Evans: joint winner of 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine. The Lancet. 370. 9605. 2007. 2095. 0140-6736. 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61889-3. 18156018. 7800773.
  7. Web site: Professor Allan Bradley: a decade at Sanger | Wellcome Trust . Wellcome.ac.uk . 15 June 2010 . 2012-04-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101203010331/http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2010/Features/WTX059873.htm . 3 December 2010 . dead .
  8. Web site: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's Director Honoured: Allan Bradley Elected to Royal Society – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute . Sanger.ac.uk . 2012-04-04.
  9. News: New stem cell method could end need for liver transplants. Kate Kelland. National Post. 12 October 2011.
  10. PhD. University of Cambridge. Isolation characterization and developmental potential of murine embryo-derived stem cells.. A.. Bradley. 1985.
  11. Web site: Allan Bradley – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute . Sanger.ac.uk . https://web.archive.org/web/20131113144014/http://www.sanger.ac.uk/research/faculty/abradley/. 2013-11-13.
  12. Web site: Searle Scholars Program: Allan Bradley (1988) . Searlescholars.net . 2012-04-04.
  13. Web site: Bradley – DeBakey Excellence in Research Awards- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas . https://archive.today/20120719182953/http://www.bcm.edu/debakeyawards/Bradley.html . dead . 2012-07-19 . Bcm.edu . 2012-04-04.

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