British academic Allan Balmain is a Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco, US (UCSF).
Balmain was educated at the University of Glasgow where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1966, followed by a PhD on the organic chemistry of terpenoids in 1969.
Balmain was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 1995.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads: