Allan Bradley

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Allan Bradley FRS is a British geneticist who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute from 2000-2010.

Education Bradley was educated at the University of Cambridge where he earned Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and PhD degrees in genetics from Trinity College, Cambridge gained while working in the laboratory of Martin Evans.

Career Following his PhD, Bradley was appointed assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, beginning in 1987 where he was also a Searle Scholar in 1988. Bradley was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 1993 and director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, from October 2000 (preceded by John Sulston) to April 2010, succeeded by Michael Stratton. He and his research team moved to the University of Cambridge in 2019.

Awards and honours Bradley won a 1994 DeBakey Award and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2002. His certificate of election reads: