2025 Mutagenesis Paper of the Year Award Winner: Dean Thomas

• Post by: K.E.Chapman@swansea.ac.uk
• December 12, 2024
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The publication was authored by Dean N Thomas , John W Wills , Helen Tracey , Sandy J Baldwin , Mark Burman , Abbie N Williams , Danielle S G Harte , Ruby A Buckley and Anthony M Lynch (Mutagenesis, 2024, Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 78-95, https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gead033).

UKEMS would like to congratulate Dean and his co-authors on this award and their excellent contribution to the Mutagenesis journal.

Biography: Dean Thomas

Dean Thomas is an Associate Director within the Genetic Toxicology and Photosafety group at GSK. With over 17 years experience in Genetic Toxicology, his area of focus as a scientist is drug development and toxicology, performing a host of regulatory, screening and investigative assays within the group to support GSK’s drug development commitments.

Dean completed his undergraduate degree in Genetics at Swansea University, tutored by Prof. Jim Parry and followed this up with a Master’s degree in Toxicology at Surrey University. Dean has considerable expertise in the bacterial reverse mutation assay and sits on several committees working on the nitrosamine mutagenicity and carcinogenicity concordance challenge.

Throughout his career within Genetic Toxicology, Dean has attended numerous IGG, UKEMS and workshop meetings. His long-standing association within IGG has culminated in him joining the committee team as an ordinary member.

Outside the office (and lab), Dean loves spending his time with his family, running through deserts, going to/watching the Races and Football (Arsenal).

About the Paper of the Year Award

The Mutagenesis Paper of the Year Award is usually presented to the corresponding author of the most highly downloaded paper in the first six months following publication in Mutagenesis. The winning author is selected by the UKEMS committee to receive their award and present on the selected paper at the UKEMS Annual Meeting. The author(s) do not need to be UKEMS members.

For more information on the journal and how to submit your manuscript, please see the website: Mutagenesis.

Other frequently downloaded Mutagenesis publications from 2023/24

Please find below a list of other papers published in Mutagenesis that were frequently downloaded within the last 12 months. UKEMS thanks all authors for their contributions to the journal.

Doak, S. H., Andreoli, C., Burgum, M. J., Chaudhry, Q., Bleeker, E. A., Bossa, C., … & Dusinska, M. (2023). Current status and future challenges of genotoxicity OECD Test Guidelines for nanomaterials: a workshop report.

Lynch, A. M., Howe, J., Hildebrand, D., Harvey, J. S., Burman, M., Harte, D. S., … & Wills, J. W. (2024). N-Nitrosodimethylamine investigations in Muta™ Mouse define point-of-departure values and demonstrate less-than-additive somatic mutant frequency accumulations. Mutagenesis, 39(2), 96-118.

Lynch, A. M., Zanoni, T. B., Salk, J. J., Martincorena, I., Young, R. R., Kucab, J., … & Ashford, A. (2023). Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at the Royal Society of Medicine (London, May 2022): how genomics is on the path to modernizing genetic toxicology.

Chapman, K. E., Shah, U. K., Fletcher, J. F., Johnson, G. E., Doak, S. H., & Jenkins, G. J. (2024). An integrated in vitro carcinogenicity test that distinguishes between genotoxic carcinogens, non-genotoxic carcinogens, and non-carcinogens. Mutagenesis, 39(2), 69-77.

Burgum, M. J., Ulrich, C., Partosa, N., Evans, S. J., Gomes, C., Seiffert, S. B., … & Doak, S. H. (2024). Adapting the in vitro micronucleus assay (OECD Test Guideline No. 487) for testing of manufactured nanomaterials: recommendations for best practices. Mutagenesis, 39(3), 205-217.

Mišík, M., Kundi, M., Worel, N., Ferk, F., Hutter, H. P., Grusch, M., … & Knasmueller, S. (2023). Impact of mobile phone-specific electromagnetic fields on DNA damage caused by occupationally relevant exposures: results of ex vivo experiments with peripheral blood mononuclear cells from different demographic groups. Mutagenesis, 38(4), 227-237.