PEOPLE:

Professor Clare Isacke

Head of the Molecular Cell Biology laboratory

Professor Clare Isacke studied for her BA in Biochemistry and DPhil in Developmental Biology at the University of Oxford. She then moved to the Salk Institute in San Diego to work on growth factor receptor signalling as a postdoctoral fellow.

On returning to England, she started her own research laboratory, first in the Department of Biochemistry and then in the Department of Biology at Imperial College, London and was appointed Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in 2000. In 2001, Clare move to the Chester Beatty Laboratories in The Institute of Cancer Research in London to take up an appointment as Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in the Breakthrough Research Centre and in 2004 was appointed Deputy Director of the Centre.

She chairs the Medical Research Council non-clinical fellowship panel and is a member of the Medical Research Council Training and Career Board.