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Walter Kolch
Signalling and Proteomics Laboratory
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
Cancer Research UK
Garscube Estate
Switchback Road
Bearsden
Glasgow
G61 1BDResearcher website: http://www.beatson.gla.ac.uk/research/index.html?topic_id=230
Research Goals
To understand how biochemical signalling networks, in particular the Ras-Raf-ERK pathway, determine biological decisions, and how these mechanisms can be exploited for cancer therapy.
Qualifications and Personal History
MD, FRSE
1985-1986 - Research Fellow at the Institute of Biochemistry, Vienna Medical School
1986-1987 - Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Foundation at the National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA
1988-1990 - Fogarty Visiting Fellow, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, USA
1991-1992 - Head of the Department of Molecular Biology, Gödecke-Parke Davis, Freiburg, Germany
1993-1997 - Head of the Signal Transduction Group, GSF Research Centre, Munich, Germany
1998 to present - Group Leader, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow
2000 to present - Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Glasgow
2001-2005 - Director, Sir Henry Wellcome Functional Genomics Facility, University of Glasgow
2005 to present - Scientific Director, Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Proteomics Technologies (a consortium of the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh)
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