Professor Sir David Lane is best known for his role in arguably the most important cancer gene discovery ever made when he identified p53, a protein believed to play a role in as many as half of all human cancers. Professor Lane serves as the Executive Director of the IMCB in Singapore. He has won many international prizes and is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). He is also a Fellow of the UK’s premier scientific academy, the Royal Society; the Royal Society of Edinburgh; the Royal College of Pathologists and the Academy of Medical Sciences. For his contributions to cancer research, the Queen of England knighted Professor Lane at Buckingham Palace in 2000. Professor Lane received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from University College London, England.