Mark Groudine
Executive Vice President and Deputy Director, Member, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, USA
As a molecular and cellular biologist, Dr. Groudine is internationally renowned for his research on the control of gene expression and the structure of chromatin, the substance in the nucleus of living cells that contains genes and forms chromosomes. Advances in these areas are essential for understanding cancer formation and growth.
In recognition of Groudine's contributions to biomedical research, he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also recently received a rare honor from the National Institutes of Health in the form of two consecutive Merit awards-long-term funding for investigators with impressive records of scientific achievement in promising research areas.