Mel Greaves

Mel Greaves is Professor of Cell Biology at The Institute of Cancer Research and Founding Director of its Centre for Evolution and Cancer. His specialisms are cancer evolution, childhood leukaemia and cancer origins. He traced the prenatal origins of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia using twin studies and neonatal blood spots, showing that the disease begins before birth, and framed cancer as an evolutionary process. His Nature Reviews Cancer paper proposed a causal mechanism for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the delayed-infection hypothesis for its aetiology. His publications are listed on PubMed.