Simon LangdonDivision of Pathology Laboratories,
Western General Hospital,
University of Edinburgh,
UK
Biography
Simon Langdon graduated from Oxford University in 1979 with a BA in Chemistry (MA in 1983), and undertook his PhD in the CRC Experimental Chemotherapy Group at Aston University. While at Aston, he was part of the research team that developed Temozolomide, an anticancer drug which is used to treat several types of brain cancer. In 1985, after completing a CRC post-doctoral fellowship in Birmingham, he moved to the Edinburgh ICRF Medical Oncology Unit, first as a post-doc and then as an ICRF staff scientist. In 2007, he was appointed to a Senior Lecturer post in the Division of Pathology, and to Reader in 2013. His current research interests are in the evaluation of new therapeutic strategies especially for the treatment of ovarian and breast cancer.
Research Interest
His research focusses on both cell signalling pathways and metabolic pathways that are used in breast and ovarian cancers. Individual cancers have differing degrees of dependency on these pathways and we are investigating the associations between cell signalling via these pathways and cell fate; specifically linkage between pathway activation and outcomes such as growth, apoptosis and migration. Current studies are focussing on metabolic pathways modified in cancers that might prove useful as targets for new agents.