NKI Friday seminar by Jason Carroll
The role of nuclear receptors and pioneer factors in cancer
Jason Carroll
Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jason Carroll is an Australian who completed a PhD in 2002 at the Garvan Institute, Sydney, with Prof Robert Sutherland. He conducted postdoctoral work with Prof. Myles Brown at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA from 2002-2006. He has been a group leader since 2007. He is currently the Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Group Leader at Cancer Research UK, a Fellow at Clare College and was elected an EMBO member in 2016 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2017. His lab is interested in understanding mechanisms of hormone-dependent cancer.