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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
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Andrew Blackford
PhD
Associate Professor
- Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellow
- Against Breast Cancer/Oriel College Research Fellow
Andrew Blackford is an associate professor and group leader in the Department of Oncology, based at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. His group studies the signalling mechanisms cells use to respond to DNA damage and why defects in these pathways cause human diseases such as cancer.
After obtaining his PhD in the School of Cancer Sciences at the University of Birmingham in 2008, he undertook postdoctoral positions with Wojciech Niedzwiedz at the University of Oxford in 2009 and Steve Jackson in the Wellcome Trust/CRUK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge in 2012. He was awarded a Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowship to start his own group and took up his current post in June 2016.
Group Members
VACANCIES
We are always looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join us, especially those with previous experience in areas including bioinformatics, biochemistry, animal models and super-resolution imaging.
Informal enquiries welcome so please get in touch with your CV if you would like to join our team!
Alumni & NeXt Destinations
Key publications
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Groelly FJ. et al, (2022), Nature Reviews Cancer
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Groelly FJ. et al, (2022), Mol Cell
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De Marco Zompit M. et al, (2022), Nat Commun, 13
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Hodson C. et al, (2022), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 119
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Shorrocks A-MK. et al, (2021), Nat Commun, 12
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Blackford AN. and Stucki M., (2020), Trends Biochem Sci
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Leimbacher P-A. et al, (2019), Mol Cell, 74, 571 - 583.e8
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Blackford AN. and Jackson SP., (2017), Mol Cell, 66, 801 - 817
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Ochi T. et al, (2015), Science, 347, 185 - 188