Melvyn Greaves
Sir Melvyn Francis Greaves FMedSci, FRS is a British cancer biologist, and Professor of Cell Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. He is noted for his research into childhood leukaemia and the roles of evolution in cancer, including important discoveries in the genetics and molecular biology underpinning leukaemia.Education
Greaves initially trained in zoology and immunology, earning a PhD degree in 1968 from University College London.Career and research
In the mid-1970s his research turned to leukaemia, an interest he attributes to a tour of Great Ormond Street Hospital. He worked at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund laboratories at Lincoln's Inn Fields before moving to the ICR in 1984. At the ICR he served as Director of the Leukaemia Research Fund's Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology of Leukaemia from 1984-2003, and launched the Centre for Cancer Evolution in 2013.Selected publications
- Melvyn F. Greaves and Geoffrey Brown, , The Journal of Immunology, January 1, 1974, vol. 112 no. 1 420-423
- Melvyn F. Greaves Monoclonal antibodies to receptors: probes for receptor structure and function, Chapman and Hall, 1984,
- Edward S. Henderson, Thomas Andrew Lister, Melvyn F. Greaves Leukemia, Saunders, 1996,
- Melvyn F. Greaves Cancer: the evolutionary legacy , Oxford University Press, 2000
Awards and honours
Greaves awards and honours include:
