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Barry James Thompson | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Darwin, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian, British |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland (UQ), University of Cambridge |
| Awards | LMB Max Perutz Prize (2003), EMBO Young Investigator Award (2012), Wellcome Trust Investigator Award (2014), EMBL Australia Fellowship (2019). |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental biology, Epithelial polarity, Hippo signaling pathway |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The Drosophila gene pygopus encodes a new nuclear component of the Wingless signalling pathway (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mariann Bienz |
| Other academic advisors | Stephen M Cohen, Barry Dickson |
| Website | www |
Barry James Thompson (born 1978) is an Australian and British developmental biologist and cancer biologist. Thompson is known for identifying genes, proteins and mechanisms involved in epithelial polarity, morphogenesis and cell signaling via the Wnt and Hippo signaling pathways, which have key roles in human cancer.