DrOlivier Pardo

The Cellular Regulatory Networks Lab focusses on identifying signalling events that promote therapy resistance and metastasis in various cancer types.

In particular, we have highlighted the role of several members of the S6 kinase family in disease progression and identified the role of the growth factor, FGF-2, in the development of resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs.

Our research combines traditional biochemical and molecular biology techniques with high-throuput and high-content screening, multiomics analysis (proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics), drug discovery, bioinformatics and experimental imaging approaches through a network of collaborators in the academic and private sector, in and outside the UK.

We are always looking for motivated scientists to join our team. Our laboratories, part of the CRUK Cancer Center, offer a dynamic environment where members are encouraged to complement our wide expertise in the field of cell signalling and cancer biology with their own inovative approaches.


Dr Olivier Pardo - A short biography

I studied Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University Paris V, Paris, France, where I obtained my Doctorate in Pharmacy in 1997. I then joined Imperial College, London, where I completed my PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2002. Following a 4-year postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof Julian Downward at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, I returned to Imperial College to start my own research team at the Division of Cancer. I have been an associate editor at the journal Oncogene since 2019. In addition, I am actively involved in teaching. I was the course director for the MRes Cancer Biology here at Imperial College between 2006 and 2021 and am still heavily involved with the teaching on this course. I am also involved as a Module Assessment Lead on the Intercalated BSc Can cer Frontiers. I am a Visiting Professor at the University of Poiters, France, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and an Associate Editor for the journal Oncogene.

New positions in my lab 

New positions available in my lab are regularly advertised on the Imperial College web-site. Please, feel free to contact me to discuss possibilities of joining us through scholarships, fellowships or collaborative funding schemes.