Gurdon Institute

The Gurdon Institute (officially the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) is a research facility at the University of Cambridge, specialising in developmental biology and cancer biology.

History
The Institute was founded in 1989 to provide a rich, collaborative environment for scientists working in diverse but complementary specialities in the fields of developmental biology and cancer biology. It receives its primary funding from the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK.

In 2004 it was renamed in honour of John Gurdon, joint winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine. the director is Ben Simons. The Deputy Director is Emma Rawlins.

Faculty
there are 13 Group Leaders and 2 Associate Group Leaders.

Group Leaders:

Associate Group Leaders:
 * 1) Julie Ahringer
 * 2) Sumru Bayin
 * 3) Andrea Brand
 * 4) David Fernandez-Antoran
 * 5) Jenny Gallop
 * 6) John Gurdon
 * 7) Tony Kouzarides
 * 8) Emma Rawlins
 * 9) Ben Simons
 * 10) Daniel St Johnston
 * 11) Azim Surani
 * 12) Iva Tchasovnikarova
 * 13) Fengzhu Xiong
 * 1) Martin Howard
 * 2) John Perry

Alumni
Former Group Leaders:


 * 1) Michael Akam
 * 2) Enrique Amaya
 * 3) Nick Brown
 * 4) Rafael Carazo Salas
 * 5) Thomas Down
 * 6) Martin Evans
 * 7) Charles ffrench-Constant
 * 8) Janet Heasman
 * 9) Meritxell Huch
 * 10) Steve Jackson
 * 11) Ron Laskey
 * 12) Rick Livesey
 * 13) Hansong Ma
 * 14) Anne McLaren
 * 15) Masanori Mishima
 * 16) Eric Miska
 * 17) Nancy Papalopulu
 * 18) Eugenia Piddini
 * 19) Jonathon Pines
 * 20) Jordan Raff
 * 21) Jim Smith
 * 22) Chris Wylie
 * 23) Philip Zegerman
 * 24) Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz