Alumni stories

Former students from the Institute of Genetics and Cancer share stories of their student days and their lives and careers since graduating.

Andrea Taylor

Dr Andrea Taylor is CEO of Edinburgh Innovations, the commercialisation arm of The University of Edinburgh. As an entrepreneurial leader, Andrea has more than 25 years of experience in innovation, commercialisation and deal making across academia, industry and the public sector in the life sciences and deep tech sectors.

Darren Logan

Dr Darren Logan is Vice President of Research at Mars, Inc. In this role he leads two research institutes, one focused on Food Safety based in China and the other a virtual institute focused on developing early stage science & technology to tackle global problems and harness emerging opportunities around sustainability, AI, and health & wellbeing.

James Reddington

Dr James Reddington is Associate Director at GSK Omics Technologies where he leads a team in drug discovery using omics technologies and computational approaches to find drug targets and develop new medicines.