Owen Sansom | |
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Born | Owen James Sansom 21 April 1975 |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
Known for | Work on Wnt signalling in cancer |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Cancer |
Institutions |
Owen Sansom, FRSE.,[1] FMedSci[2] is the Director of the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute (formerly known as the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research). He is known for his work determining the molecular hallmarks of colorectal cancer (CRC), including demonstrating the roles of the tumour suppressor protein APC and the WNT signalling pathway, as well as the involvement of intestinal stem cells in tumourigenesis[3][4]
Loss of Apc
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).