Ian Tomlinson (scientist)

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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]

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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] In 2013, he was awarded the United European Gastroenterology Research Prize of €100.000. [9]

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References

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