Ludmil Alexandrov

Ludmil B. Alexandrov is a Bulgarian-American scientist and an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego.[3][4][5][1]

Ludmil Alexandrov
Born
Ludmil B. Alexandrov
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forMutational signatures
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Biology
Cancer Genomics
Mutagenesis
Ageing
Bioinformatics[1]
InstitutionsLos Alamos National Laboratory
Wellcome Sanger Institute
UC San Diego
ThesisSignatures of mutational processes in human cancer (2014)
Doctoral advisorMichael Stratton[2]
Websiteprofiles.ucsd.edu/ludmil.alexandrov

Education

Alexandrov received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2014.[2]

Career and research

Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures together with Michael Stratton and colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.[6]

Alexandrov's research interests are in computational biology, cancer genomics, mutagenesis, ageing and bioinformatics.[1] Alexandrov is one of the co-leaders of the Mutographs of Cancer project, a £20 million Grand Challenge Project funded by Cancer Research UK "to fill in the missing gaps to identify the unknown cancer-causing factors and reveal how they lead to cancer."[7][8]

References
  1. Ludmil Alexandrov publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Alexandrov, Ludmil (2014). Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer (PDF). sanger.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 1064595163. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.708130.
  3. "Welcome Dr. Ludmil B. Alexandrov to Bioengineering | Bioengineering". be.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  4. "Funded team Stratton". Cancer Research UK. 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  5. Mexican, Rebecca MossThe New. "Uncovering the origins of cancer". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  6. Mosaic, Kat Arney. "The DNA detectives who are hunting the causes of cancer". CNN. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  7. "Mutographs of Cancer - CRUK Grand Challenge Project | Wellcome Sanger Institute". www.sanger.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  8. "One Guy With a Supercomputer Who's Chasing the Causes of Cancer". Popular Mechanics. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.