Kristian Helin
Professor, Chief Executive and President
Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Kristian Helin is the Chief Executive and President of The Institute of Cancer Research, London. He started at the ICR in September 2021.
Kristian Helin obtained his MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and his PhD from the University of Copenhagen. Between 1991 and 1993, he was a research fellow in the laboratory of Professor Ed Harlow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Here, he identified and cloned the first members of the E2F transcription factor family and showed their importance for understanding the function of the retinoblastoma protein.
He returned to Denmark in 1993 to start as a group leader at the Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen and moved two years later to the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy, to become a founding member of the Department of Experimental Oncology.
