Robin C. Allshire

Robin Allshire PhD, FRSE, FRS is Professor of Chromosome Biology, University of Edinburgh. Graduated from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (BA Genetics,1981). A Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 scholarship enabled his Ph.D. research on Bovine Papilloma Virus mini-chromosomes at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit, Edinburgh (1985). Post-doctoral training at MRC Human Genetics Unit (MRC-HGU), Edinburgh with Prof. N.D. Hastie. Initiated his independent research career at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, New York (1989) before taking a tenured position at MRC-HGU (1990). He undertook three-months research sabbatical at Kyoto University (1992). Moved to the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh in 2002 where he runs a dynamic research programme as a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow.