Dr. Clive Wilson

Biography

Clive Wilson is a Professor of Cell Developmental Genetics at the University of Oxford, where he specializes in employing powerful genetics and cell biology methodologies using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to generate novel disease models and elucidate biological functions of evolutionarily conserved subcellular processes and signaling cascades. He graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1983 and received his doctorate from the University of Warwick in 1986. His research experience includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the lab of Walter Gehring in Basel (1987-1990) where he developed an enhancer trap system for screening transcriptional targets of Hox genes. He further worked with Hermann Steller at Cambridge, USA, from 1990-1993, studying neurotrophic receptor genes. Later, he served as a Lecturer at the University of Kent and returned to Oxford in 2001 to focus on growth regulation and insulin signaling, linking his work to cancer biology. His ongoing research aims to develop novel models for studying prostate cancer and to reveal new aspects of reproductive biology, with a focus on fundamental cellular processes and signaling pathways relevant to major human diseases such as diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders.

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