Dr. Nicholas McGranahan completed his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences, specializing in Evolutionary Genetics, at the University of Bath before pursuing post-graduate studies at University College London at the Centre of Mathematics and Physics in the Life Science and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX). In 2011, Dr. McGranahan joined Professor Charles Swanton’s group at the CR-UK London Research Institute (now the Francis Crick Institute), completing a PhD in Cancer Genomics in 2015. As a Senior Research Associate on the CR-UK TRACERx (TRAcking Cancer Evolution through therapy (Rx)) lung cancer study, Dr McGranahan’s research interests include using bioinformatics to dissect cancer genome evolution and the mechanisms of drug resistance, intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic instability. His work involves exploring the evolutionary history of cancers through sequencing multiple regions of individual tumours. In particular, Dr McGranahan’s research has focused on understanding the importance of genome doubling in tumour evolution, as well as exploring the mutational processes shaping the genomes of cancers over space and time. Dr McGranahan has authored over 20 articles in high impact journals, including first author publications in Science, Nature and Cancer Cell.

 Bioinformatics