JonathonPines The Institute of Cancer Research, Pines LabUnited Kingdom

Professor Jonathon Pines is the Chris Marshall Chair of Cell Biology at The Institute of Cancer Research. He moved to the ICR in 2015 to take up the position of Head of the Division of Cancer Biology. Jon's research is focused on understanding how cells divide, in particular how the machinery that controls mitosis is regulated in space and time. During his PhD, under the supervision of Sir Tim Hunt, Jon was the first to clone cyclin B – the critical protein for regulating mitosis in animal cells. His work led towards the identification of cyclins in all other eukaryotes. Jon carried out postdoctoral work in Professor Tony Hunter’s group at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Here he cloned the first human cyclins - A and B1 - and began to map their interactions with other proteins involved in regulating the cell cycle and in promoting cancer.