Chris Lord

Professor Chris Lord is Deputy Head of Division at The Institute of Cancer Research, Team Leader of the CRUK Gene Function Laboratory and Professor of Cancer Genomics and Deputy Director at Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre at the ICR, London. Professor Lord completed his D.Phil., working on complex disease genetics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.

Chris carried out post-doctoral work at the CIMR, University of Cambridge, and at the ICR. Much of the focus of his work is in exploiting genetic concepts such as synthetic lethality and functional genomics approaches to understand the behaviour of tumour cells. The ultimate aim of this work is to use this information to design novel ways to treat the disease.