Ian Tomlinson | |
---|---|
Born | Ian Tomlinson |
Awards | EMBO Membership (2016)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Colorectal cancer Genetics |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
Ian Tomlinson FRS FMedSci[2] is a director of the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham.[3][4][5]
Highlights of Tomlinson's research include the discovery of colorectal cancer genes[6] and kidney cancer predisposition genes that are transferred by Mendelian inheritance.[2]
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]