About the Gurdon Institute

Part of the University of Cambridge, we are a world-leading centre for research into the biology of development and how normal growth and maintenance go wrong in diseases such as cancer.

Our research is at the interface between developmental biology and cancer biology. We focus on several related topics:

• Cell division, proliferation and genome maintenance;

• Function and regulation of the genome and epigenome;

• Mechanisms of cell fate determination, multipotency and plasticity;

• Cellular processes underlying organ development and function.

We investigate these areas in both normal development and in cancer using several model systems, from yeast to human organoids.

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