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Professor Allan Balmain
PROMINENT Mutographs
Professor in Residence, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
US
Meet Allan, Co-Team Lead of PROMINENT and a co-investigator on Mutographs
Allan Balmain was born in Wick, Scotland, studied Organic Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, and carried out post-doctoral work France and Germany. He subsequently worked in the University of Glasgow and Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute (formerly the Beatson Institute), before moving to the United States in 1997. Balmain established a molecular link between chemical carcinogen exposure and initiation of tumour development in 1983, and showed that the types of mutations found in oncogenes depend on the causative chemical agent. A major focus has been the links between genetic and environmental factors and how they interact to cause cancer susceptibility.