Antony Michael Carr (born 2 May 1960) is an emeritus professor and director of the Genome Damage and Stability Centre (GDSC) at the University of Sussex. [1]
Carr was born in Dunfermline, Scotland and educated at Helston Comprehensive School. He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in biological sciences in 1981, and subsequently became a doctoral student in the laboratory of Paul Nurse at the University of Sussex, where he completed his PhD in 1987. [1] [2]
In 1996, he was awarded the Fleming Prize Lecture by the Microbiology Society. [2] He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014. [3]