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andrew.blackford@oncology.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 222306


ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1979-021X

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Andrew Blackford

PhD

Associate Professor & CRUK Senior 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 established his lab in 2016 with the support of a Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowship, and was awarded a Senior Cancer Research Fellowship from Cancer Research UK in 2023 to continue his research.

In 2024, he was awarded a Novo Nordisk Foundation Hallas-Møller Ascending Investigator fellowship to establish a new lab in the Center for Chromosome Stability in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen.

GROUP MEMBERS

Kaima Tsukada, Postdoctoral Researcher

Liudmyla Lototska, Postdoctoral Researcher

Ipek Ilgin Gönenc, Postdoctoral Researcher

Julius Bannister, DPhil Student

Jan Bisenberger, Laboratory Assistant