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Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
IMAXT
Senior Group Leader, CRUK Cambridge Institute. Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
UK
Meet Shankar, a co-investigator on IMAXT
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Senior Group Leader at the Cambridge Institute in the University of Cambridge. He specialises in nucleic acids chemistry and is a co-inventor of Solexa-Illumina next generation sequencing and epigenetic sequencing.
His primary contribution to the Grand Challenge will be on the detection and analysis of nucleic acids.