Duncan Odom

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Duncan T. Odom is a research division head at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, and a university professor at Heidelberg University. Previously he was a research group leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) at the University of Cambridge (2006-2022)

Career and research After a period as a postdoctoral researcher in genetics and genomics at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Richard A. Young, , according to Google Scholar his most highly-cited papers have been published in Cell, Chemical Reviews, and Science.

His research has been funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and Cancer Research UK.

Awards and honours Odom was awarded the Crick Lecture by the Royal Society in 2014 for his "pioneering work in the field of comparative functional genomics, which has changed our understanding of the evolution of mammalian transcriptional regulation."