Professor Margaret Frame

Biography

Margaret Frame is a cancer research scientist with interests in novel cancer mechanisms and taking new approaches to cancer therapeutics – work that has been funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) ERC, MRC and the Brain Tumour Charity. Margaret is currently Director of the Institute of Genetics and Cancer in Edinburgh, following previous leadership roles as Deputy Director of the CRUK Beatson Institute (Glasgow), Director of the CRUK Edinburgh Centre and Dean of Research in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Margaret was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2002, an EMBO Member in 2007 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009. She served as President of the British Association for Cancer Research (until 2018) and is a past chair of the CRUK new investigator/fellowship panel. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Honors List in 2018 for services to cancer research and is currently a Trustee of the Institute for Cancer Research (London).