Azim Surani

Azim Surani
CBE FRS FMedSci
Born1945 (age 78–79)
Kisumu, Kenya
Alma materPlymouth University (BSc)
University of Strathclyde (MSc)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
AwardsGabor Medal (2001)
Royal Medal (2010)
Mendel Lectures (2010)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (2018)[1]
Mendel Medal (2022)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisModulation of Implanting Rat Blastocysts to Macromolecular Secretions of the Uterus (1975)
Doctoral advisorRobert Edwards
Doctoral studentsKat Arney[2]
Other notable studentsAnne Ferguson-Smith (postdoc)[3]
Websitewww.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/surani

Azim Surani CBE FRS FMedSci[1] (born 1945 in Kisumu, Kenya) is a Kenyan-British developmental biologist who has been Marshall–Walton Professor at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge since 1992, and Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research since 2013.[4][5]

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  2. ^ Arney, Katharine Luisa (2002). Epigenetic modification in the mouse zygote and regulation of imprinted genes (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894595629.
  3. ^ Ferguson-Smith, A. C.; Cattanach, B. M.; Barton, S. C.; Beechey, C. V.; Surani, M. A. (1991). "Embryological and molecular investigations of parental imprinting on mouse chromosome 7". Nature. 351 (6328): 667–670. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..667F. doi:10.1038/351667a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 2052093. S2CID 4233463. Closed access icon
  4. ^ Azim Surani publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ "Azim Surani — The Gurdon Institute". Gurdon.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 August 2017.