Alexandre Akoulitchev

Alexandre read mathematics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1989 he was selected by the George Soros Foundation for the Oxford Scholarship, associated with St. Antony’s College, along with 20 top Soviet graduate students from the USSR. He obtained his PhD in cell biology from University College, London (with the research based at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund). He spent six years at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-UMDNJ, NJ, as a research assistant funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Upon his return to England, he established his research laboratory at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He was a University Academic Fellow (Research Council UK) and a Senior Fellow of Exeter College, sponsored by Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, The Medical Research Council and Monsanto Foundation. Alexandre is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Sibelius Limited.