Richard Marais#
| Membership Number: | 4132 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.oncodrug.co.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 – present Centre Co-Lead, CRUK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence
- 2014 – present Scientific Co-Director, Belfast-Manchester Movember Centre of Excellence
- 2012 – present Director, CRUK Manchester Institute
- 2012 – present Senior Group Leader, Molecular Oncology, CRUK Manchester Institute
- 2011 – 2012 Division Head, Division of Cancer Biology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- 2008 – 2011 Deputy Chair, Section of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- 2007 – 2012 Professor of Molecular Oncology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- 1998 – 2012 Team Leader, Signal Transduction Team, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- 1993 – 1998 Independent Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
- 1989 – 1992 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, under Dr Richard Treisman, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Personalised medicine
- Tumour heterogeneity
- Cell signalling
- Melanoma
- Tumour biology
- Mouse models
- Tumour initiation
- Drug resistance
- BRAF/NRAS oncogenes
- Ultraviolet light
Honours and Awards
- 2015 - 2020 ERC Advanced Grant, 'Elucidating the role of ultraviolet radiation in melanoma'
- 2014 The Melbin & Griem Lectureship in Molecular and Cellular Oncology
- 2013 - 2018 The Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, 'Developing personalised medicine for malignant melanoma',
- 2012 AACR Team Science Award. Awarded to The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and Royal Marsden Hospital: Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit and Drug Development Units
- 2011 Society for Melanoma Research Estella Medrano Memorial Award
- 2009 Elected EMBO Member
- 2009 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2007 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2003 EACR Young Cancer Researcher “Certificate of Merit”
- 2003 Anniversary Prize of the Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (Society for Biochemistry Molecular Biology)
- 2001 The British Association for Cancer Research/Zeneca Young Scientist of the Year
