Education
Greaves initially trained in zoology and immunology, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in 1968 from University College London.
Greaves initially trained in zoology and immunology, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in 1968 from University College London.
He is noted for his research into childhood leukaemia and the roles of evolution in cancer, including important discoveries in the genetics and molecular biology underpinning leukaemia. In the mid-1970s his research turned to leukaemia, an interest he attributes to a tour of Great Ormond Street Hospital. He worked at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund laboratories at Lincoln"s Inn Fields (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) before moving to the ICR in 1984.
At the ICR he served as Director of the Leukaemia Research Fund"s Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology of Leukaemia from 1984-2003, and launched the Centre for Cancer Evolution in 2013.
Henderson, Thomas Andrew Lister, 1986 Honorary Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (Royal College of Physicians, London). 1999 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom (FMedSci).
1999 Gold Medal, British Society for Haematology. 2003 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System).
2015 Cancer Research United Kingdom Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Prize.
Royal Society.