ALLAN JORDAN

Director of Oncology Drug Discovery, Sygnature Discovery

Allan started his career as a medicinal chemist at RiboTargets (now Vernalis). After ten years in the lab, he joined Cancer Research UK (CRUK) as Head of Chemistry in the Manchester Institute Drug Discovery Unit. During his 9-year tenure, he led both internal research activities and national and international research collaborations to deliver novel oncology therapeutics, alongside his responsibilities for synthetic and medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, informatics and structural biology. He was also passionately involved in science communication and research engagement through both direct contact and the broadcast media, engaging in face to face interactions with more than twenty thousand of the charity’s supporters. In 2016 he was a recipient of a CRUK “Flame of Hope” award (the charity’s highest award for voluntary services) for his contributions to research engagement on behalf of the charity.

Allan has a BSc (Hons.) in Chemistry and a PhD in organic and medicinal chemistry from the University of Manchester and undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Reading.