Allan Balmain

British academic Allan Balmain is a Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco, US.

Education

Balmain was educated at the University of Glasgow where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1966, followed by a PhD on the organic chemistry of terpenoids in 1969.

Awards and honours

Balmain was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1995.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015. His certificate of election reads: