Gurdon Institute


The Gurdon Institute is a research facility at the University of Cambridge, specialising in developmental biology and cancer biology. The Institute was founded in 1989 to provide a rich, collaborative environment for scientists working in diverse but complementary specialities in the fields of developmental biology and cancer biology. It receives its primary funding from the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK.
In 2004 it was renamed in honour of John Gurdon, joint winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine. the director is Julie Ahringer and the deputy director is Eric Miska.

Faculty

there are 15 Group Leaders and 2 Associate Group Leaders.
Group Leaders:
  1. Julie Ahringer
  2. Andrea Brand
  3. Jenny Gallop
  4. John Gurdon
  5. Steve Jackson
  6. Tony Kouzarides
  7. Hansong Ma
  8. Eric Miska
  9. Emma Rawlins
  10. Ben Simons
  11. Daniel St Johnston
  12. Azim Surani
  13. Iva Tchasovnikarova
  14. Fengzhu Xiong
  15. Philip Zegerman
Associate Group Leaders:
  1. Martin Hemberg
  2. John Perry

    Alumni

Former Group Leaders:
  1. Michael Akam
  2. Enrique Amaya
  3. Nick Brown
  4. Rafael Carazo Salas
  5. Thomas Down
  6. Martin Evans
  7. Charles ffrench-Constant
  8. Janet Heasman
  9. Meritxell Huch
  10. Ron Laskey
  11. Rick Livesey
  12. Anne McLaren
  13. Masanori Mishima
  14. Nancy Papalopulu
  15. Eugenia Piddini
  16. Jonathon Pines
  17. Jordan Raff
  18. Jim Smith
  19. Chris Wylie
  20. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz