Elizabeth Murchison is a British-Australian geneticist, Professor of Comparative Oncology and Genetics at the University of Cambridge, UK.
The ongoing research of her group[1] focuses on the known existing clonally transmissible cancers arising in mammals.
This disease could make the Tasmanian devil, a marsupial that lives on the Australian island of Tasmania, go extinct.
Elizabeth Murchison has received several awards for her research, such as the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Cancer Research UK Future Leaders in Cancer Research Prize, the British Association for Cancer Research-AstraZeneca Young Scientist Frank Rose Award, the Genetics Society Balfour Prize Lecture (2014), and the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators (2012).
[9] Elizabeth Murchison's 2011 TED talk titled "Fighting a contagious cancer" has been viewed more than 500,000 times.