Tom Curran
| Tom Curran FRS | |
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| Born | 14 February 1956[1] |
| Fields | pathology |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Studies on the FBJ murine osteogeneic sarcoma virus complex (1982) |
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Thomas Curran FRS is a Scottish medical researcher, and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.[2] He is Associate Director of Translational Genomics, at the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute.[3][4]
Education
Curran was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978.[1] He was awarded a PhD from University College London in 1982 for studies on the murine osteogeneic sarcoma virus complex [5]
Career and research
He was chairman of the department of developmental neurobiology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
He was president of the American Association for Cancer Research in 2000. [6] He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.[7]
Awards and honours
Curran was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005.
References
- 1 2 CURRAN, Prof. Thomas. Who's Who. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- ↑ http://www.penncancer.org/patients/find-a-doctor/2099/
- ↑ http://www.genomics.upenn.edu/about-us/staff
- ↑ Tom Curran's publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ↑ Curran, Thomas (1982). Studies on the FBJ murine osteogeneic sarcoma virus complex (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 940247804.
- ↑ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/aafc-rse060305.php
- ↑ http://www.iom.edu/About-IOM/Membership/IOMClassof2009.aspx