Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Fellow: Curran
Elected: 2020
Discipline: Biomedical and Cognitive Sciences
Professor Tom Curran
Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Children's Research Institute
After receiving a BSc in Biological Sciences from Edinburgh University in 1978 and a PhD from University College London in 1982 for studies carried out at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK), Tom Curran moved to the United States. Working in industry and academia, his research spans the fields of cancer, signal transduction, brain development and neurobiology. He developed a particular interest in translating scientific discoveries into medical advances for children. His work contributed to a new cancer treatment that shows promise in pediatric brain tumors and was approved for advanced basal cell carcinoma. Currently, he is building a new pediatric research institute in Kansas City, Missouri.
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