Ian Tomlinson is a British scientist who is a director of the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
[2][3][4] Highlights of Tomlinson's research include the discovery of colorectal cancer genes[5] and kidney cancer predisposition genes that are transferred by Mendelian inheritance.
[6] Tomlinson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".
[8] In 2013, he was awarded the United European Gastroenterology Research Prize of €100.000.
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