Ludmil Alexandrov

Ludmil B. Alexandrov
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Known for Mutational signatures
Scientific career
Institutions

Los Alamos National Laboratory Wellcome Sanger Institute

University of California, San Diego
Thesis Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer (2014)
Academic advisors Michael Stratton

Ludmil B. Alexandrov is a Bulgarian-American scientist and an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego.[1][2][3] Alexandrov received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2014.

Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures during his PhD studies with Michael Stratton at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.[4] He 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."[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome Dr. Ludmil B. Alexandrov to Bioengineering | Bioengineering". be.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  2. ↑ "Funded team Stratton". Cancer Research UK. 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  3. ↑ Mexican, Rebecca MossThe New. "Uncovering the origins of cancer". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  4. ↑ Mosaic, Kat Arney,. "The DNA detectives who are hunting the causes of cancer". CNN. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  5. ↑ "Mutographs of Cancer - CRUK Grand Challenge Project | Wellcome Sanger Institute". www.sanger.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  6. ↑ "One Guy With a Supercomputer Who's Chasing the Causes of Cancer". Popular Mechanics. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
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