
Axel Behrens
- Lab: Adult Stem Cell Laboratory
- Job Title: Group Leader
- Email Address:
- Phone Number: +44 (0)20 3796 1194
Qualifications and History
- 1998 PhD in Biology, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
- 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
- 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Neuropathology, Switzerland
- 2001 Established lab at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK (in 2002 the Imperial Cancer Research Fund became Cancer Research UK)
- 2015 Group Leader, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Axel has a long-standing interest in cell signalling pathways that control cell fate. Axel began his scientific career working with Erwin Wagner at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria. During his PhD and subsequent postdoctoral work in Switzerland with Adriano Aguzzi, he developed animal models of cancer and neurodegeneration.
Building on this expertise in mouse models of human diseases, Axel set up his laboratory at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute in 2001 (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) and has since focused the scope of investigation on the function of stem cells in tissue homeostasis and cancer and, more recently, in diabetes.
Year published
Research topics
- Biochemistry & Proteomics (5)
- Cell Biology (4)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (10)
- Computational & Systems Biology (10)
- Developmental Biology (2)
- Gene Expression (30)
- Genetics & Genomics (30)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (30)
- Human Biology & Physiology (8)
- Imaging (6)
- Immunology (2)
- Infectious Disease (1)
- Metabolism (1)
- Model Organisms (30)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (6)
- Stem Cells (30)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (2)
- Tumour Biology (29)
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Publication type
Journal
- Acta Neuropathologica Communications (1)
- Biomedical Optics Express (1)
- Blood (1)
- Cancer Cell (2)
- Cancer Research (4)
- Cell (1)
- Cell Cycle (1)
- Cell Reports (3)
- Cell Stem Cell (2)
- Development (2)
- Developmental Biology (1)
- eLife (1)
- EMBO Journal (4)
- EMBO Reports (1)
- eNeuro (1)
- Gastroenterology (2)
- Gut (1)
- Hormone and Metabolic Research (1)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry (1)
- Journal of Cell Biology (1)
- Journal of Clinical Investigation (2)
- Journal of Comparative Neurology (1)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (2)
- Journal of Neurochemistry (1)
- Journal of Pathology (1)
- Molecular and Cellular Biology (1)
- Molecular Cancer Research (1)
- Molecular Psychiatry (1)
- Nature (3)
- Nature Cell Biology (4)
- Nature Communications (2)
- Nature Neuroscience (1)
- Nature Protocols (1)
- Neuron (1)
- Oncogene (4)
- PLOS Biology (2)
- PLOS Genetics (2)
- PLOS ONE (1)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1)
- Seminars in Cancer Biology (1)
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