Frank Ulhman

Frank Uhlmann

Qualifications and history

  • 1997 PhD, University of Tübingen/ Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Germany/ USA

  • 1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria

  • 2000 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

Frank Uhlmann was born and grew up in Germany. He studied biochemistry and physiological chemistry at the University of Tübingen before joining Jerry Hurwitz's laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for his PhD studies. Frank then moved to the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria, to work as a postdoc with Kim Nasmyth.

In 2000, he established a research laboratory at what was then the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. He has remained there ever since, while the institute became part of Cancer Research UK (the London Research Institute) and now the Francis Crick Institute.

His work on chromosome segregation was recognised with the EMBO Gold Medal in 2006.

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