| Azim Surani obtained his Ph.D. in Mammalian Development at the University of Cambridge in 1975 under Professor R. G. Edwards, and went on to establish his own independent laboratory at the Babraham Institute in 1979. In 1991 he returned to the University of Cambridge as the Marshall-Walton Professor at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, and is also a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His past work includes the discovery of the phenomenon of Genomic Imprinting in mice. More recent work has focused on the mechanism of specification of primordial germ cells in mammals, and the epigenetic reprogramming of the mammalian germ line. His research interests also include pluripotent stem cells and the mechanisms of genomic reprogramming and dedifferentiation. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990. |
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