New Science Director at Edinburgh Cancer Research

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Professor Carragher has stepped down as Director of Translation for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh to become Science Director.

He will continue in his role as Associate Director of the Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre, working with the centre’s Clinical Director Professor Charlie Gourley and Associate Directors Liz Patton and Steve Pollard, to direct and build scientific, translational and clinical cancer research.

He graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1992 with a BSc Honours degree in Cell and Immunobiology. He gained his PhD while working at the Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals Research Institute, Oxford, and held consecutive postdoctoral positions within the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow.

In 2004 Neil returned to industry as Principal Scientist with the Advanced Science and Technology Laboratory at AstraZeneca where he pioneered early multiparametric high-content phenotypic screening approaches.

He returned to academia in 2010, taking up the post of Principal Investigator at the University of Edinburgh, before being appointed Professor of Drug Discovery in 2015.

I am delighted to have been appointed Science Director of Edinburgh Cancer Research and look forward to working closely with our cancer research communities in Edinburgh, across Scotland and beyond, to further advance our reputation as a world leader in both fundamental and clinical cancer research and to translate our research towards patient benefit.

Professor Carragher

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• Leadership | The University of Edinburgh
• Neil Carragher | The University of Edinburgh