Professor Tony Kouzarides says his knighthood “reinforces the importance of translating basic research into therapies”. The University of Cambridge professor of cancer biology has been given the honour for his services to healthcare innovation and delivery. Prof Kouzarides, who is senior group leader at the Gurdon Institute and director and co-founder of the Milner Institute, completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and postdoctoral work at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the cancer-inducing potential of human cytomegalovirus. He then went to NYU Medical Center in New York where…
