Tom Curran

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Tom Curran
FRS
Born (1956-02-14) 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)
Website
www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/news_releases/2009/10/institute-of-medicine/image-curran.html

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

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