Honorary Professor of Breast Pathology, University of Dundee & Consultant Pathologist, NHS Tayside
Biography
Colin Purdie studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh between 1980 and 1986. He studied for an intercalated degree and graduated with first-class honours in Pharmacology (BSc) and a primary medical degree (MBChB). Following his re-registration posts in clinical medicine and surgery, he worked for 2 years in internal medicine before being awarded the prestigious Leckie-Mactier Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh. He embarked on a highly successful 3 year PhD which was awarded in 1994 and resulted in several publications including one in the journal Nature (Clarke, A.R et al. (1993) Nature 362: 849-851).
