Tony Kouzarides Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Tony Kouzarides
Birth Date:1958 1, df=yes[1]
Fields:Cancer
Chromatin
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Workplaces:University of Leeds
University of Cambridge
Gurdon Institute
New York University
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Abcam
Alma Mater:University of Leeds (BSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Thesis Title:A molecular analysis of transformation by human cytomegalovirus
Thesis Url:http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=10515
Thesis Year:1985
Doctoral Advisor:Tony Minson[2]
Awards:Heinrich Wieland Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society (2012)
FMedSci (2001)[3]
Website:

Sir Tony Kouzarides, FMedSci,[3] FRS[4] (born 17 January 1958) is a senior group leader Gurdon Institute,[5] a founding non-executive director of Abcam[6] and a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge.[7]

Education

Tony did his PhD at the University of Cambridge and postdoctoral work at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and New York University Medical Center. His research group at the Gurdon Institute is focused on epigenetic modifications and their involvement in cancer.

Research & Activities

Tony Kouzarides is Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge and a group leader at the Gurdon Institute. He currently holds the following directorships: Director and Co-founder of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, director of Cambridge Gravity and director of STORM Therapeutics.

Tony is founder/director of Cambridge Gravity, an organization for the promotion of science at the University of Cambridge. He is founder, patron and ex-director of a cancer charity in Spain called Conquer Cancer (Vencer el Cancer). He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Cancer Research (UK) and on the Executive Board of the CRUK Cambridge Cancer Centre.

Tony is a co-founder and ex-director of Abcam plc, a publicly trading research reagents company in Cambridge, a co-founder and ex-director of Chroma Therapeutics, of a drug discovery company based in Oxford and a co-founder and current director of STORM Therapeutics, a drug discovery company based in Cambridge.

Awards & Prizes

Kouzarides has been elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, Fellow of the British Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and is a Cancer Research UK Gibb Fellow. He has been awarded the Wellcome Trust medal for research in biochemistry related to medicine (UK), the Tenovus Medal (UK), the Bodossaki Foundation prize in Biology (Greece), the Bijvoet Medal (Holland), the Biochemical Society Award Novartis Medal and Prize (UK) and the Heinrich Wieland Prize (Germany).

He was knighted in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours "for services to healthcare innovation and delivery".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: KOUZARIDES, Prof. Tony. Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press. 2015-03-18.
  2. Cranage . M. P. . Kouzarides . T. . Tony Kouzarides. Bankier . A. T. . Satchwell . S. . Weston . K. . Tomlinson . P. . Barrell . B. . Hart . H. . Bell . S. E. . Minson . A. C. . Identification of the human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B gene and induction of neutralizing antibodies via its expression in recombinant vaccinia virus . The EMBO Journal . 5 . 11 . 3057–3063 . 1986 . 3024973 . 1167261. 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1986.tb04606.x .
  3. Web site: The Academy of Medical Sciences | Directory of Fellows. 2015-04-03. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403170246/http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/p59fid5445.html.
  4. Web site: Professor Tony Kouzarides FMedSci FRS. 2012-04-24.
  5. Web site: The Kouzarides Lab at the Gurdon Institute. 2012-04-24.
  6. Web site: Abcam board of directors. 2012-04-24.
  7. Web site: Professor Tony Kouzarides profile- Cambridge Cancer Centre. 2013-09-13. dead. https://archive.today/20130913011940/http://www.cancer.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?tk106.