Adam Wilkinson

Adam Wilkinson is a Krishnan-Ang Distinguished Scholar and Group Leader in the Department of Haematology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, he undertook PhD training at the University of Cambridge Department of Haematology with Professor Bertie Gottgens. He then performed postdoctoral training with Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University with funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Blood Cancer UK, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and Edward P. Evans Foundation.

He started his own research group in 2021 at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford with support from the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund, the NIHR, and the European Hematology Association, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. In 2025, he moved back to Cambridge with support from the Krishnan-Ang Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. Adam received the International Society for Experimental Hematology Janet Rowley Award for his scientific contributions to the field in 2025.