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Record W7125212277 · doi:10.1098/rsbm.2025.0021

Christopher John Marshall

2025· article· en· W7125212277 on OpenAlexaff
Karen H. Vousden, Robin A. Weiss, Peter W. J. Rigby

Bibliographic record

VenueBiographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMelanoma and MAPK Pathways
Canadian institutionsInstitute of Cancer Research
FundersFrancis Crick Institute
KeywordsRigourPassionBiographyRest (music)Bench to bedsideCancerIdentification (biology)

Abstract

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Abstract Christopher Marshall was a cell biologist by training, who was recognized for his contribution to cancer biology. He graduated from the natural sciences tripos in Cambridge and obtained his DPhil from Oxford. Following postdoctoral studies in London and Boston, he returned to the UK to take a position at the Institute of Cancer Research, where he remained for the rest of his life. Chris made major discoveries in the identification and understanding of the oncogenic mechanisms of RAS and MAPKs, delineating signalling pathways that are activated through various mechanisms in most cancers. His work contributed to the development of small molecule inhibitors of several of the proteins involved that are now in routine clinical use, perfectly encapsulating the concept of bench to bedside research. Chris nurtured and developed the career of scores of trainees, including those that worked with him and many who were enthused by simply meeting him or following his work. By inspiring generations of cancer biologists, Chris passed on the passion and rigour that he brought to his studies, and his legacy lives on in their work.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.056
Threshold uncertainty score0.415

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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