Ludmil B. Alexandrov is a Bulgarian-American scientist and an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.[3][4][5][1][6]

Ludmil Alexandrov
Born
Ludmil B. Alexandrov
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forMutational signatures
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Biology
Cancer Genomics
Mutagenesis
Ageing
Bioinformatics[1]
InstitutionsLos Alamos National Laboratory
Wellcome Sanger Institute
UC San Diego
ThesisSignatures of mutational processes in human cancer (2014)
Doctoral advisorMichael Stratton[2]
Websiteprofiles.ucsd.edu/ludmil.alexandrov

Education

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Alexandrov received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2014.[2]

Career and research

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Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures together with Michael Stratton and colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.[7]

Alexandrov's research interests are in computational biology, cancer genomics, mutagenesis, ageing and bioinformatics.[1] Alexandrov is one of the co-leaders of the Mutographs of Cancer project, a £20 million Grand Challenge Project funded by Cancer Research UK "to fill in the missing gaps to identify the unknown cancer-causing factors and reveal how they lead to cancer."[8][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Ludmil Alexandrov publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  2. ^ a b Alexandrov, Ludmil (2014). Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer (PDF). sanger.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 1064595163. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.708130.
  3. ^ "Welcome Dr. Ludmil B. Alexandrov to Bioengineering | Bioengineering". be.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  4. ^ "Funded team Stratton". Cancer Research UK. 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  5. ^ Mexican, Rebecca MossThe New. "Uncovering the origins of cancer". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  6. ^ "The Alexandrov Lab - Team". alexandrov.cloud.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  7. ^ Mosaic, Kat Arney. "The DNA detectives who are hunting the causes of cancer". CNN. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  8. ^ "Mutographs of Cancer - CRUK Grand Challenge Project | Wellcome Sanger Institute". www.sanger.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  9. ^ "One Guy With a Supercomputer Who's Chasing the Causes of Cancer". Popular Mechanics. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-09-23.