Robert Clarke

Overview

Director of the Manchester Breast Centre, which comprises 25 basic, translational and clinician scientists active in breast cancer research:

http://www.breastcentre.manchester.ac.uk/

Former President (2012-2014) and Board Member, International Association for Breast Cancer Research

Editorial Board: American Journal of Pathology, Breast Cancer Research _and _Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia

Biography

I did my undergraduate BSc studies in Biology at the University of Sussex and the Université de Grenoble.  Following two and half years as a Research Assistant with Professor Potten at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, I studied the control of proliferation in the normal and neoplastic human mammary gland for my PhD at The University of Manchester (1995). Subsequently, I undertook post-doctoral training with Dr Liz Anderson in the Clinical Research Department of The Christie, Manchester, and in 2001, I returned to The University of Manchester as a Group Leader in the Division of Cancer Sciences. I was appointed as a Lecturer and Cancer Research UK Research Fellow from 2001-2006 and as a Senior Lecturer and Breast Cancer Now Research Fellow from 2006-2011.  I am currently a Reader in Breast Biology leading the Breast Cancer Now Research Unit and Director of the Manchester Breast Centre, based at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre.