Ian Tomlinson (scientist)

Ian Tomlinson FRS FMedSci[2] is a director of the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham.[3][4][5]

For other people named Ian Tomlinson, see Ian Tomlinson (disambiguation).
Ian Tomlinson

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

Career and research

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]

Awards and honours

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]

References
  1. Anon (2016). "Ian Tomlinson EMBO profile". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  2. 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)
  3. "Birmingham researcher awarded Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Science". birmingham.ac.uk. Birmingham.
  4. 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. doi:10.1038/34432. ISSN 0028-0836.
  5. Ian Tomlinson publications from Europe PubMed Central
  6. 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.
  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.
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