David Lane (oncologist)
David Philip Lane ( born July 1, 1952 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England ) is a British immunologist and cancer researcher. Lane works at the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore.
Lane is especially important for the discovery of the tumor suppressor p53 is known ( 1979). Lane has made significant contributions to the understanding of the function of p53 in healthy individuals or the malfunction of genetically modified p53 in cancer patients in the course of his scientific career.
Life
Lane earned at University College London in 1973 a BS in Microbiology and a Ph.D. in 1976 at Avrion Mitchison in immunology. As a postdoctoral Lane worked at Lionel Crawford at Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, before he worked from 1977 as a Lecturer in the Department of Zoology and from 1981 in the Department of Biochemistry at Imperial College London. 1978-1980 Lane had a research stay at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. In 1985 he took over as head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunochemistry at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in South Mimms, Hertfordshire; In 1988 he became head of the entire device. In 1990, Lane Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, and the management of the local research laboratory of Cancer Research UK. From 2007 to 2009 Lane was granted leave to conduct the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A * STAR, Agency for Science, Technology and Research ) in Singapore. 2007/2008 he was Head of the Experimental Therapeutics Centre, 2008/2009 of the Biomedical Research Council, Singapore. From 2007 to 2010 Lane was head of research at Cancer Research UK, and since 2009 he is head of research at A * Star, Singapore.
Lane is married to the dermatologist and immunologist Birgit Lane, which also conducts research in Dundee and Singapore.