Azim Surani PhD, CBE, FRS, FMedSci

Azim Surani was born in Kenya and received PhD in 1975 at Cambridge University under Professor Sir Robert Edwards FRS (Nobel Laureate, 2010). Joined the Babraham Institute in 1979 and discovered Genomic Imprinting in 1984 and subsequently, novel imprinted genes and their functions, with mechanisms through establishment and erasure of DNA methylation. He was elected the Marshall-Walton Professor (1992), and Director of Germline and Epigenomics Research (2013) at Cambridge University

He has recently established the genetic basis for germ cell specification and epigenetic programming. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1990) and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2001) He was awarded a Royal Medal in 2010 and in 2014 McEwan Award for Innovation, The International Society for Stem Cell Research.