Allan Balmain

{{Short description|American academic}}

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| honorific_prefix = Professor

| name = Allan Balmain

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS|FRSE}}

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| caption = Balmain in 2015

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• Cancer{{Cite journal | pmid = 12610533| year = 2003| last1 = Balmain | first1 = A | authorlink1 = Allan Balmain| title = The genetics and genomics of cancer| journal = Nature Genetics| volume = 33 Suppl| issue = 3s| pages = 238–44| last2 = Gray| first2 = J| last3 = Ponder | first3 = B | authorlink3 = Bruce Ponder| doi = 10.1038/ng1107| s2cid = 8379885}}
• Genetics{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1186/gb-2011-12-1-r5| title = Network analysis of skin tumor progression identifies a rewired genetic architecture affecting inflammation and tumor susceptibility| journal = Genome Biology| volume = 12| pages = R5| year = 2011| last1 = Quigley | first1 = D. A. | last2 = To | first2 = M. D. | last3 = Kim | first3 = I. J. | last4 = Lin | first4 = K. K. | last5 = Albertson | first5 = D. G. | last6 = Sjolund | first6 = J. | last7 = Pérez-Losada | first7 = J. S. | last8 = Balmain | first8 = A. | pmid = 21244661| pmc = 3091303| authorlink8 = Allan Balmain| url = https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt2hz2r67q/qt2hz2r67q.pdf | doi-access = free}} {{open access}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80127-0| title = TGFβ1 Inhibits the Formation of Benign Skin Tumors, but Enhances Progression to Invasive Spindle Carcinomas in Transgenic Mice| journal = Cell| volume = 86| issue = 4| pages = 531–542| year = 1996| last1 = Cui | first1 = W. | last2 = Fowlis | first2 = D. J. | last3 = Bryson | first3 = S. | last4 = Duffie | first4 = E. | last5 = Ireland | first5 = H. | last6 = Balmain | first6 = A. | last7 = Akhurst | first7 = R. J. | pmid = 8752208| s2cid = 18065761| doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal

| pmid = 8306319

| year = 1994

| last1 = Merritt

| first1 = A. J.

| title = The role of p53 in spontaneous and radiation-induced apoptosis in the gastrointestinal tract of normal and p53-deficient mice

| journal = Cancer Research

| volume = 54

| issue = 3

| pages = 614–7

| last2 = Potten

| first2 = C. S.

| last3 = Kemp

| first3 = C. J.

| last4 = Hickman

| first4 = J. A.

| last5 = Balmain

| first5 = A

| last6 = Lane

| first6 = D. P.

| last7 = Hall

| first7 = P. A.

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| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Strasbourg
• German Cancer Research Center
• Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
• University of Glasgow}}

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| alma_mater = University of Glasgow

| thesis_title = Studies in the diterpenoid field

| thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181893750

| thesis_year = 1969

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• FRS (2015){{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/fellowship/2015/allan-balmain/ |title = Professor Allan Balmain FRS |publisher=The Royal Society |archivedate=2015-05-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502130846/https://royalsociety.org/people/fellowship/2015/allan-balmain/ |location=London}}
• FRSE (1995)}}

| website = {{Plainlist|

• {{URL|profiles.ucsf.edu/allan.balmain}}
• {{URL|cancer.ucsf.edu/research/balmain-lab}}
• {{URL|http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/balmain_allan.3777}}}}

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}}Allan Balmain is an American academic who is Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).{{Cite journal

| pmid = 11586292

| year = 2001

| last1 = Derynck

| first1 = R

| title = TGF-beta signaling in tumor suppression and cancer progression

| journal = Nature Genetics

| volume = 29

| issue = 2

| pages = 117–29

| last2 = Akhurst

| first2 = R. J.

| last3 = Balmain

| first3 = A

| doi = 10.1038/ng1001-117

| s2cid = 9923320

}}{{Cite journal

| pmid = 3014349

| year = 1986

| last1 = Quintanilla

| first1 = M

| title = Carcinogen-specific mutation and amplification of Ha-ras during mouse skin carcinogenesis

| journal = Nature

| volume = 322

| issue = 6074

| pages = 78–80

| last2 = Brown

| first2 = K

| last3 = Ramsden

| first3 = M

| last4 = Balmain

| first4 = A

| doi = 10.1038/322078a0

| bibcode = 1986Natur.322...78Q

| s2cid = 4353576

}}{{Scopus|id=7005789638}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1002/mc.2940070303| title = How many mutations are required for tumorigenesis? Implications from human cancer data| journal = Molecular Carcinogenesis| volume = 7| issue = 3| pages = 139–146| year = 1993| last1 = Balmain | first1 = A. | last2 = Barrett | first2 = J. C. | last3 = Moses | first3 = H. | last4 = Renan | first4 = M. J. | pmid = 8489711| s2cid = 29456469}}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/307658a0| title = Activation of the mouse cellular Harvey-ras gene in chemically induced benign skin papillomas| journal = Nature| volume = 307| issue = 5952| pages = 658–660| year = 1984| last1 = Balmain | first1 = A. | last2 = Ramsden | first2 = M. | last3 = Bowden | first3 = G. T. | last4 = Smith | first4 = J. | pmid = 6694757| bibcode = 1984Natur.307..658B| s2cid = 4254723}}