Simon Joseph Boulton is a British scientist who has made important contributions to the understanding of DNA repair and the treatment of cancer resulting from DNA damage.
15 Facts About Simon Boulton
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Simon Boulton currently occupies the position of Senior Scientist and group leader of the DSB Repair Metabolism Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, London.
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Simon Boulton is an honorary Professor at University College London.
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Simon Boulton is responsible for identifying these new DNA repair genes, understanding how these genes work in DNA, and determining how the defects in these processes contribute to human diseases.
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Simon Boulton first worked under Professor Nicholas Dyson of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, then under Professor Marc Vidal of the Dana Faber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.
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In 2002, Simon Boulton joined Cancer Research UK, working at its London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, in South Mimms, and in Hertfordshire.
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Simon Boulton established his own research group there, and was eventually promoted to Senior Scientist in 2007.
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Boulton's PhD supervisor, Stephen P Jackson, has said that it is Boulton's distinctive combination of approaches that has allowed Boulton to make seminal contributions to DNA repair, genome instability, and cancer.
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Simon Boulton won the Colworth Medal from the Biochemical Society in 2006, and was selected to give the EACR Young Cancer Researcher of the Year award lecture in 2008.
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Simon Boulton became a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2009, and was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2010.
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Simon Boulton won the EMBO Gold Medal in 2011 for his research on DNA repair mechanisms.
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Simon Boulton was selected for this honour in recognition of his achievements in the field of DNA repair.
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Simon Boulton was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2012.
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In 2013, Simon Boulton was the recipient of the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, which recognises a new generation of leaders in cancer research who are making significant contributions to the understanding of cancer.
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Simon Boulton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2022.