John Hancock, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, ScD, MRCP, FRACP

Biography

John F. Hancock has been Executive Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine since 2012. He also serves as Executive Dean of McGovern Medical, holds the John S Dunn Distinguished University Chair in Physiology and Medicine and is the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a member of The Royal College of Physicians (UK).  Dr. Hancock was formerly Deputy Director of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, one of Australia’s premier biomedical Research Institutes. He was also on the faculty of the University of Queensland as a professor of molecular cell biology and professor of experimental oncology before coming to McGovern Medical School in 2008 as Chairman of the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology. Prior to moving to Australia in 1995, he was a Research Director at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company in California. Dr. Hancock read Natural Sciences and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK from 1975-1981 before embarking on the US equivalent of internal medicine and hematology/ oncology residency programs at major London teaching hospitals. He started his scientific training in 1986 as an MRC Research Fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, from where he received his PhD. In 1989 Dr. Hancock set up his first research laboratory at the Royal Free Hospital, London where he also practiced as a Consultant Hematologist until leaving the UK in 1992.