Alex Toker - Vice Chair, Reviews

Alex Toker received his BSc (Hons) in Biology at King's College London in 1987, and his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, in 1991. He then moved to the USA to carry out postdoctoral research in Professor Lewis Cantley's laboratory, first at Tuft's University Medical School, then at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Here he worked on signalling pathways activated by phosphoinositide 3-kinase. In 1998, he took his first faculty appointment at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, and in 2001 was recruited to the Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology. His research focuses on the signal transduction pathways mediated by protein kinases, integrins and transcription factors and how they modulate cancer cell invasion and survival.

Biochemical Journal Reviews