Alexey Larionov PhD

Dr. Alexey Larionov graduated as a medical doctor in Russia in 1992 (Pavlov State Medical University, St.Petersburg, Bachelor in Medicine as recognized by UK NARIC). For several years he combined clinical work in emergency medicine and medical oncology. In 1998 he completed a Ph.D. project that studied sources of estrogen in breast cancer patients (Petrov Institute of Oncology, St.Petersburg, Russia). After his Ph.D., supported by the Royal Society, he went for a postdoctoral fellowship at Edinburgh University, where he studied mechanisms and markers of endocrine resistance in breast cancer. Working with data-rich methods (qPCR & microarrays) he became interested in data analysis and fully switched to bioinformatics. After completing of MSc in Bioinformatics (Cranfield University, 2012) he worked in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Cambridge, where he provided bioinformatics support for a variety of studies on heritable predisposition to cancer. Throughout his research career, he published many well-cited articles about cancer and bioinformatics. In 2021 he returned to Cranfield University in a capacity of a Lecturer in Bioinformatics.