Allan Balmain

British academic Allan Balmain is a Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics^[2] at the University of California, San Francisco, US (UCSF).^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Professor Allan Balmain FRS FRSE
Balmain in 2015
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Awards	FRS (2015)[1] FRSE (1995)[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Cancer[3] Genetics[4][5][6]
Institutions	University of California, San Francisco University of Strasbourg German Cancer Research Center Beatson Institute for Cancer Research University of Glasgow[2]
Thesis	Studies in the diterpenoid field (1969)
Website	profiles.ucsf.edu/allan.balmain cancer.ucsf.edu/research/balmain-lab cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/balmain_allan.3777

Education

Balmain was educated at the University of Glasgow where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1966, followed by a PhD on the organic chemistry of terpenoids in 1969.^[2]

Awards and honours

Balmain was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 1995.^[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

Allan Balmain has pioneered the use of the mouse as a model system for understanding the complexity of cancer at a genetic, molecular and cellular level. Through his novel and creative experiments he established the first molecular link between cancer initiation and carcinogen exposure, identified how specific genetic events lead to malignant progression and made major advances in our understanding of cancer susceptibility. Balmain's wide-ranging, innovative use of mouse genetics has generated new approaches for visualizing the genetic architecture of cancer pathways and the roles of complex network interactions in determining an individual's cancer susceptibility.^[1]