Alan Ashworth

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Institute of Cancer Research
Chester Beatty Laboratories
237 Fulham Road
London
SW3 6JB
United Kingdom

Email: alan.ashworth@icr.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7153 5209
Web: Lab website

About Alan Ashworth

Professor Alan Ashworth is Chief Executive of The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and leads the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Gene Function team, which is studying how certain faulty genes can increase a person's risk of developing breast cancer. Thousands of women with a strong family history of breast cancer now benefit from research like this, which has enabled doctors to offer them tailored advice, screening and treatment.

Alan Ashworth other research projects

Funding period: 01 October 2007 to 30 September 2012

Funding period: 01 July 2009 to 30 June 2012

Funding period: 01 August 2010 to 31 July 2013

Recent publications


Targeting Tankyrase 1 as a therapeutic strategy for BRCA-associated cancer

Oncogene.2009;28 :1465-1470

Perilobar nephrogenic rests are nonobligate molecular genetic precursor lesions of insulin-like growth factor-II-associated Wilms tumors

Clin Cancer Res.2008;14 :7635-7644