Nicholas R. Leslie PhD

Nick studied for a first degree in Genetics at Cambridge University and a PhD at Glasgow University with David Sherratt. After PostDoctoral research with Paul Harrison at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, he moved to Dundee to work with Peter Downes and Philip Cohen at the inception of their pharmaceutical collaboration, the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy. He was appointed as an Independent Investigator in 2002 and as an RCUK Academic Fellow in 2006. In January 2013, Nick moved to the new Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengeneering at Heriot Watt University as a Reader.