Simon Boulton

As VP Science Strategy at Artios, Simon plays an important role in assisting the business development team in the identification andevaluation of new pipeline opportunities from the global academic and industrial DDR network. Simon is an award-winning British scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London who brings over 20 years’ experience of working in the DNA damage response field, and 15 years as an independent group leader studying the mechanisms of DNA repair and their impact on human disease.

Simon’s principal position is a Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute and he is also an honorary Professor at University College London. Over the last 15 years his lab has discovered novel DNA repair genes and provided molecular insights into their impact on human diseases. As a result of his ground-breaking work, Simon has received a number of prestigious accolades, notably the EMBO Gold Medal and the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. He has also given numerous prize lectures, most notably the Royal Society Francis Crick Prize lecture and the Mendel Lecture.

Simon previously established the DNA Damage Response Laboratory at Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratory having completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School, Boston, with Prof. Nick Dyson (MGH Cancer Centre) and Prof. Marc Vidal (Dana Faber Cancer Institute).

Simon gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Steve Jackson (Gurdon Institute).