Luca Magnani

Luca Magnani graduated with his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Bologna. During an exchange visit to Purdue University, he discovered his interest in early embryogenesis. His work then took him to Michigan State University, where he continued his research on mouse embryogenesis, and more specifically on chromatin remodelling ATPases. In 2009, he made a significant shift in his research focus and began to investigate how cancer cells leverage the same processes that drive development to evolve drug resistance. Working with Professor Mathieu Lupien at Dartmouth College and the University of Toronto, he unearthed new insights into epigenetic reprogramming during tumour evolution. He started his laboratory at Imperial College London in 2013 as an Imperial College Research Fellow, before becoming a CRUK Fellow and the Imperial Chair in Cancer Adaptation and Evolution. His laboratory is interested in hormone-dependent breast cancer and the use of genomics and epigenomi