Philip William Ingham (born 19 March 1955, Liverpool) is a British geneticist, currently the Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, a partnership between Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Imperial College, London.
Previously, he was the inaugural Director of the Living Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, UK[1] and prior to that was Vice Dean, Research at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
[2] Ingham was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby[3] near Liverpool and then at Queens' College, Cambridge,[citation needed] where after initially reading Philosophy and Theology he graduated in Genetics.
He gained his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Sussex under the supervision of J Robert S Whittle[4] before moving to the Laboratoire de Génétique Moleculaire des Eukaryotes in Strasbourg, France, as a Royal Society European Exchange Programme fellow.
[11] Using genetic mosaic analysis, he showed that the trx gene is required for the maintenance of the determined state of cells,[12] presaging the current understanding of the Trithorax-group proteins as key epigenetic regulators throughout the animal kingdom.