Dr George Poulogiannis

Dr George Poulogiannis is a Group Leader in the Division of Cancer Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research, London. He received his BSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Glasgow and his MSc in Human Molecular Genetics from Imperial College London. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he studied the genome abnormalities of colorectal cancer at the laboratory of Prof Andrew Wyllie and Dr Mark Arends.

The high demand for analytical skills during his PhD work led him to pursue a second Masters in Computational Biology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, where he was specialized in mathematical modeling of signaling and metabolic networks and analysis of high-throughput datasets.

George’s contribution to the Grand Challenge will be to lead the work in understanding the therapy sensitivity pattern of metabolically-distinct tumour phenotypes using genetic and pharmacological approaches across in vitro and in vivo models.