{"entity":{"id":"bradley-cairns","kind":"person","name":"Bradley Cairns","aka":[],"tldr":"Epigenetics researcher who became CEO of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in September 2025.","summary":"Bradley Cairns is Chief Executive Officer of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre, succeeding Mary Beckerle in September 2025. A professor of oncological sciences and long-time Huntsman investigator, his laboratory studies chromatin remodelling and epigenetic regulation in development, the germline and cancer.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Cairns+BR%5BAuthor%5D"}],"tags":["leadership","clinician-scientist","epigenetics"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["huntsman"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["nature"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Chief Executive Officer","institutionId":"huntsman","specialisms":["Chromatin and epigenetics","Germline biology","Cancer research leadership"],"profiles":[{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Cairns+BR%5BAuthor%5D"}],"papers":[{"title":"The biology of chromatin remodeling complexes","journal":"Annual Review of Biochemistry","year":2009,"url":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.biochem.77.062706.153223","doi":"10.1146/annurev.biochem.77.062706.153223","note":"Europe PMC author record matched by affiliation"},{"title":"Mechanisms of action and regulation of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complexes","journal":"Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology","year":2017,"url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm.2017.26","doi":"10.1038/nrm.2017.26","note":"Europe PMC author record matched by affiliation"},{"title":"Distinctive chromatin in human sperm packages genes for embryo development","journal":"Nature","year":2009,"url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08162","doi":"10.1038/nature08162","note":"Europe PMC author record matched by affiliation"}],"orcid":"0000-0002-9864-8811"},"route":"/people/bradley-cairns/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"huntsman","kind":"institution","name":"Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah","route":"/institutions/huntsman/"}],"journal":[{"id":"nature","kind":"journal","name":"Nature","route":"/journals/nature/"}]}}