Julian Downward#
| Membership Number: | 5952 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/julian-downward |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2331-4729 |
| Twitter: | @JulianDownward |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-downward-53783474/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Associate Research Director & Senior Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
- 2011 - 2019 Senior Group Leader, Institute of Cancer Research, Fulham Road, London (part time secondment, 20%)
- 2002 - 2015 Associate Director & Senior Group Leader, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
- 1993 - 2002 Senior Group Leader, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, London, UK
- 1989 - 1993 Junior Group Leader at Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, London, UK
- 1986 - 1989 Post-doctoral research fellow at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in laboratory of Dr Robert Weinberg
- 1982 - 1986 Graduate Student at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), London, UK, in laboratory of Dr Michael Waterfield.Ph.D. awarded by Imperial College, University of London
- 1979 - 1982 Undergraduate at Cambridge University, U.K. B.A. hons (first class) in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry specialisation)
Fields of Scholarship
- Oncogenes
- Tumour microenvironment
- Growth signaling
- Cancer biology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 European Research Council Advanced Grant Award (RASIMMUNE €2.5m over five years)
- 2018 Michel Clavel Memorial Lecture of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer / National Cancer Institute / American Association for Cancer Research
- 2015 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (£2m over 6.5 years).
- 2013 European Research Council Advanced Grant Award (RASTARGET €2.5m over six years)
- 2012 Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London, UK)
- 2010 Elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 2009 Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), the UK’s national academy of medical science
- 2005 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the UK’s national academy of sciences
- 2004 European Association for Cancer Research Mike Price Memorial Lecture
- 1995 Elected a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 1993 I.S.I. "Citation Classic" status for publication J.Downward et al. (1984) Nature 307, 521. "Close similarity of epidermal growth factor receptor and v-erb B oncogene protein sequences."
