9 July 2024

In EMBO's 60th anniversary year, 120 scientists from across Europe and beyond have been elected to the EMBO Membership, an honour that celebrates research excellence and outstanding achievements in the life sciences.  Prof Owen Sansom, Director of the CRUK Scotland Institute, is one of these newly elected members. Read more about EMBO and the other newly elected members here.

Owen runs the Colorectal Cancer and Wnt Signalling lab at the Institute, the team is interrogating the molecular mechanisms underpinning colorectal cancer initiation and progression, with the overarching goals to identify early-stage diagnostic biomarkers and stage- and subtype-specific targeted therapies.