Eric Wright

Weiss Medallist 2007

Professor Eric Wright moved to the Chair of Experimental Haematology in The University of Dundee following his research in Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, where he held senior posts until 1999. Professor Wright is also the Research Dean of the University of Dundee's Medical School, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. During his long standing career he has demonstrated that haemopoietic stem cell proliferation is controlled by interactions within the bone marrow microenvironment. He has identified and characterized mechanisms contributing to this regulation and described radiation-induced chromosomal instability. More recently his research has focussed on how genetic factors influence cellular and molecular responses to radiation injury and how inflammatory-type responses contribute to the development of longer-term pathological changes. Professor Wright is the Director of the Leukaemia Research Fund's Specialist Programme in Radiation Leukaemogenesis and he is the recipient of The David Anderson-Berry Medal of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in recognition of "his outstanding work on cellular, genetic and molecular respects of radiation-induced genomic instability in relation to the development of leukaemia and other diseases". 

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