Rate My Professor Duncan Baird

Professor Duncan Baird is a professor of Cancer and Genetics at Cardiff University and serves as the sub-division lead for Genetic and Genome Medicine within the Division of Cancer and Genetics in the School of Medicine. His research group focuses on telomere biology and is funded by Cancer Research UK, the US NIH, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research Wales and Health and Care Research Wales.

Professor Baird was appointed Professor at Cardiff University in 2012, having previously served as Reader there from 2008. He is a world expert in telomere biology and was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2022 in the area of Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics with specialist subject Medicine - Oncology. Key recent publications include 'Telomere dynamics in human health and disease' (2025) in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 'High-risk molecular features may eclipse genomic complexity in predicting chronic lymphocytic leukemia outcomes' (2026) in Leukemia, and 'Mitotic microhomology-mediated break-induced replication promotes chromoanasynthesis' (2026) in Nature Communications. He contributes to teaching on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Cancer module and mentors undergraduate medical students.

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