Tony Kouzarides

Professor of Cancer Biology
University of Cambridge

Tony Kouzarides is professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge. He is a Senior Group Leader at the Gurdon Institute and director/co-founder of the Milner Therapeutics Institute. Tony did his PhD at the University of Cambridge and postdoctoral work at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and at New York University Medical Center. His research group at the Gurdon Institute is focused on epigenetic modifications and their involvement in cancer. Tony is co-founder of Abcam plc, a research reagents supplier, based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, STORM Therapeutics, a drug discovery company based in on the Cambridge Babraham Campus, and Chroma Therapeutics, based in Oxford. He is the founder and director of Cambridge Gravity, an organization that supports Cambridge Science and the founder of a cancer charity in Spain (Vencer el Cancer). Tony is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the British Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and sciences (AAAS), a fellow of the Cyprus Academy of Science and a member of the European Molecular Biology organization. He has been awarded the Wellcome Trust Award for Research in Biochemistry Related to Medicine, the Tenovus Medal, the Bodossaki Foundation prize in Biology, the Bijvoet Medal, the Biochemical Society Award, the Novartis Medal and Prize, the Heinrich Wieland Prize, the Nemitsas Prize and the Cyprus Science Excellence award.