Biography - Stephen M. Keyse

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Dr Stephen M. Keyse was born in Blackburn Lancashire. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Pharmacy at the University of Bath and went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Photobiology from that University in 1983. During postdoctoral training with Rex M. Tyrrell at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in Lausanne, he studied UV-induced DNA damage, repair and mutagenesis and developed an interest in the induction of gene expression in response to conditions of oxidative-stress. Returning to the UK in 1989, this work was continued in the laboratory of Richard D. Wood at the ICRF (now Cancer Research UK) Clare Hall Laboratories in London. In 1991 he was appointed as a group leader within the CR-UK Molecular Pharmacology Unit, then based at the University of Edinburgh. Since the relocation of the CR-UK unit to the University of Dundee in 1993, he has been head of the CR-UK Stress Response Laboratory within the Biomedical Research Centre at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. He was awarded tenure with CR-UK in 1996 and was appointed to a chair at the University of Dundee in 2005. …