The Director

Professor Clare Isacke studied for her BA in Biochemistry and DPhil in Developmental Biology at the University of Oxford. She then moved to the Salk Institute in San Diego to work on growth factor receptor signalling as a postdoctoral fellow.

On returning to England she started her own research laboratory first in the Department of Biochemistry and then in the Department of Biology at Imperial College London and was appointed Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in 2000.

In 2001, Professor Isacke moved to the Chester Beatty Laboratories in the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London to take up an appointment as Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre and in 2004 was appointed Deputy Director of the Centre. Professor Isacke was appointed interim Director of the Centre in January 2011. 

She is the President of the British Society for Cell Biology.