Nazneen Rahman
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| Nationality | British |
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| Thesis | Localisation and characterisation of the familial tumour gene, FWT1 (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Stratton |
| Notable awards | FMedSci |
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Sabera Nazneen Rahman CBE FMedSci is a geneticist who specialises in cancer research and head of Genetics and Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research.
Rahman qualified in medicine from University of Oxford in 1991, and completed a PhD in Molecular Genetics in 1999 on the Wilms' tumor susceptibility gene FWT1. She completed her Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Clinical Genetics in 2001.
She is head of Genetics and Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research, based at the Sir Richard Doll Building in Sutton. She specialises in research into the genetic mechanisms that cause cancer, particularly among groups with a predisposition to paediatric cancers or breast cancer. Through her research, Professor Rahman has provided improved screening and treatment options for NHS patients, and also provides advice on rare cancer genetics to clinicians internationally. She blogs about her work at Harvesting the Genome.
Rahman has a clinical role as head of the cancer genetics service at The Royal Marsden and St George’s Hospital in south west London.
Rahman was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010. Her nomination reads:
Nazneen Rahman is Professor of Human Genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research and Head of the Clinical Genetics Department at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Her research work has been directed towards the mapping, identification and clinical characterisation of human disease genes using genome-wide linkage analysis, positional cloning, candidate gene resequencing, genome-wide association analyses and epigenetic assays. Her primary areas of research are breast cancer susceptibility, childhood cancer susceptibility and human growth disorders. In her relatively short career to date she has already identified and characterised 4 breast cancer predisposition genes and two childhood cancer predisposition genes and two overgrowth genes.
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