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Professor Karen Vousden, CBE FMedSci FRS MAE
Meet Karen Vousden, a member of the Scientific Committee
Professor Karen Vousden is a Principal Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute. Her research hones in on two key questions: how do changes in metabolism affect the development and progression of cancer? And how does the protein p53 – a tumour suppressor that plays an important role in cancer prevention – control tumour development? Ultimately, the hope is to find new ways to translate this research to improve cancer therapy.
Karen has been elected as a Fellow of a number of prestigious organisations, including the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, EMBO, the European Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association of Cancer Research Academy and the National Academy of Sciences.