Mark S. Cragg BSc, PhD

Professor Mark Cragg is Professor of Experimental Cancer Research within Medicine at the University of Southampton and is the director of the i4PhD Cancer Immunology Pathway. Mark Cragg graduated from Bath University in 1994 with a first-class degree. He graduated from Bath University in 1994 with a first-class degree in Biochemistry following two successful placements at Glaxo Wellcome and Northeastern University, Boston. He then moved to Southampton, undertaking a Ph.D. in Immunology and Immunochemistry in the Cancer Sciences Unit (CSU).

Following his Ph.D., he was awarded a career track fellowship within the School of Medicine and subsequently obtained a prestigious fellowship with the Leukaemia Research Fund (now Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research/Bloodwise). This fellowship involved a period of study in the world-class laboratory of Andreas Strasser at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. He returned to the UK in 2007, to establish his own research group within the CSU.