Information about the Department
Members of the Department of Oncology
Members of the Department are listed below in alphabetical order under each sub-heading. To find staff within a specific category, please click on the following headings:
- Senior staff
- Professors
- Readers
- Group Leaders and Research Fellows
- University Administration Team
- NHS Consultants & Associated Lecturers
- Clinical Lecturers
- Cambridge Cancer Trials Team
- NHS Management Team
Contact details for all other University staff members, including Senior Research Associates, Research Associates, Research assistants and other support staff can be found by clicking on "Email and phone search" in the header of all pages on this website.
To contact all other NHS staff members, including co-ordination/administration, nursing team and Joint Clinical Information System (JCIS) staff email the Clinical Trials Office at cctc@addenbrookes.nhs.uk
| Head of Department | ||
| Prof. Sir Bruce Ponder |
Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer | |
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| Deputy Head of Department | ||
| Prof. Gillian Murphy |
Proteases and Tumour Micro-environment | |
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| Academic Clinical Lead & Deputy Director of the Cancer Division | ||
| Prof. Tim Eisen |
Management of Renal Cancer, Lung Cancer and Pre-malignant Lung Disease | |
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| Divisional Director (Cancer ) & Clinical Director of Clinical Oncology | ||
| Dr. David Gilligan |
Consultant Clinical Oncologist | |
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| Clinical Director of Surgical Oncology | ||
| Prof. David Neal Professor of Surgical Oncology |
Urological Research | |
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| Professors | ||
| Neil Burnet Professor of Radiation Oncology |
Radiotherapy & Chemotherapy for Brain and Spinal Tumours and Radiotherapy for Sarcoma | |
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| Carlos Caldas Professor of Cancer Medicine |
Breast Cancer Functional Genomics | |
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| John Griffiths Professor of Molecular Imaging |
Cancer MRI and MRS; Metabolomics Magnetic Imaging and Spectroscopy | |
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| Duncan Jodrell Professor of Cancer Therapeutics |
Pharmacology and Drug Development Group | |
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| Simon Tavaré Professor of Bioinformatics |
Statistical Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | |
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| David Tuveson Professor of Pancreatic Cancer Medicine |
Tumour Modelling and Experimental Medicine (Pancreatic Cancer) | |
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| Ashok Venkitaraman Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research |
Understanding Chromosomal Instability and Exploiting it for Cancer Therapy | |
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| Associated Professors | ||
| Shankar Balasubramanian Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry |
Structure, Function and Recognition of Nucleic Acids | |
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| Kevin Brindle Department of Biochemistry |
Molecular Imaging in Cancer | |
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| Tony Green Head of Department of Haematology |
Haematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukaemia | |
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| Fiona Watt Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics, Department of Genetics |
Epithelial Cell Biology (Skin) | |
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| Readers | ||
| Helena Earl Reader in Clinical Cancer Medicine |
Clinical and Translational Research in Breast and Gynaecological Cancers With the Aim of Individualising Cancer Treatments for Patients | |
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| Paul Pharoah Reader in Cancer Epidemiology |
The Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer | |
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| Anna Philpott Reader in Cancer & Development Biology |
Division versus Differentiation in Development and Disease | |
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| Group Leaders and Research Fellows | ||
| Alison Dunning | Genome Wide Association Studies – Confirmation and Fine-Scale Mapping of discovered Loci | |
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| Fanni Gergely | Centrosome Biology | |
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| Vincent Gnanapragasam |
Translational Prostate Cancer Group | |
| Rajesh Jena |
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Radiotherapy Treatment of CNS Tumours |
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| Adele Murrell | Epigenetics and Imprinting in Cancer | |
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| Associated Group Leaders and Research Fellows | ||
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| James Brenton |
Functional Genomics of Ovarian Cancer Laboratory | |
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| Jason Carroll | Understanding Estrogen Receptor Function in Breast Cancer | |
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| Nick Coleman | Novel Approaches to Cancer Diagnosis | |
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| Paul Edwards | Chromosome Changes in Breast and Oesophageal Cancer | |
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| Rebecca Fitzgerald | Gastro-oesophageal Cancers; Understanding Pathogenesis of Barrett’s Oesophagus and Oesophageal Adenocarcinomas in Order to Improve Disease Management and Patient Care | |
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| Kim Jensen |
Regulation of Epidermal Homeostasis by Extracellular Stimuli | |
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| Phil Jones |
Stem Cells and Cancer | |
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| Florian Markowetz | Computational Biology: Cancer Genetics & Genomics and Stem Cell Biology | |
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| Carla Martins | Modelling tumour development and therapy | |
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| Masashi Narita | Cellular Senescence and Tumour Suppression | |
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| Duncan Odom | Regulatory Systems Biology Laboratory | |
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| Nitzan Rosenfeld | Molecular and Computational Diagnostics | |
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| Jacequeline Shields | Defining a Role for Lymphatics in the Developing Tumour Microenvironment | |
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| John Stingl | Mammary Gland Stem Cell Biology | |
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| Doug Winton | Stem Cell Biology of the Intestine | |
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| University Departmental Administration Team | ||
| Eimear O'Brien | Accounts Clerk | |
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| Michael Harvey | Senior Accounts Clerk | |
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| Richard Hill | Assistant Admninistrator | |
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| Sarah Pearson | PA to Business & Operations Manager and HR Administrator | |
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| Anna Philpott | Director of Graduate Education | |
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| Vicki Sparkes | Business & Operations Manager | |
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| Hayley Woffendin | Scientific Administrator; Graduate Student Administrator & Admissions Officer; Webmaster | |
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| NHS Consultants and Associated Lecturers | ||
| Athar Ahmad Consultant Medical Oncologist |
Breast, Colorectal and Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers | |
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| Richard Benson Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Head & Neck, Thyroid and Urological Cancers; Interstitial Radiotherapy | |
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| Dr Sara Booth Macmillan Consultant Palliative Medicine |
Palliative Medicine: Breathlessness and Chronic Illness | |
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| Ramesh Bulusu Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Lung Cancer, Lymphoma, Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumours, Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancer and Unknown Primaries | |
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| Charlotte Coles Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Gynaecological Cancers; Breast Radiotherapy Research and Clinical Trials | |
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| Pippa Corrie Consultant Medical Oncology Associate Lecturer in Medical Oncology |
Gastro-Intestinal Tract, Hepatobiliary/Pancreas Cancers, and Melanoma | |
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| Margaret Daly Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Breast, Colorectal and Gynaecological Cancers | |
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| Kate Fife Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Lung, Renal and Skin Cancers | |
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| Hugo Ford Consultant Medical Oncologist |
Colorectal, Lung and Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers | |
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| Susan Harden Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Lung Cancer, Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers, Thymoma and Mesothelioma | |
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| Gail Horan Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Sarcoma and Urological Cancers; Paediatric Radiotherapy | |
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| Luke Hughes-Davies Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Breast cancer | |
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| Sarah Jefferies Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Head & Neck Cancer, Thyroid Cancer and Central Nervous System (CNS) Tumours | |
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| Catherine R Jephcott Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Breast, Colorectal and Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers | |
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| Danish Mazhar Director of Medical Oncology Consultant Medical Oncologist |
Urological and Germ Cell Cancers. | |
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| Karen F McAdam Consultant Medical Oncologist |
Breast, Colorectal, Hepatobiliary, Neuroendocrine and Upper Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers and Unknown Primaries | |
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| A Margaret Moody Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Lymphoma, Breast and Colorectal Cancers | |
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| Cheryl Palmer Consultant Medical Oncologist |
Breast, Colorectal, Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Cancers | |
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| Helen Patterson Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Urological Cancer | |
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| Simon Russell Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Breast and Urological Cancers | |
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| Li Tee Tan Consultant Clinical Oncologist. |
Colorectal and Gynaecological Cancers; Interstitial Radiotherapy | |
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| Robert J Thomas Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Breast, Colorectal, Prostate and Urological Cancers; Brachytherapy | |
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| Dee Traue Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine |
Palliative Care | |
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| Kathryn Waite Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma and Uroligical Cancers | |
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| Michael V Williams Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Lymphoma and Teratoma; Paediatric Oncology; Radiotherapy for Haematological Malignancy | |
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| Charles B J H Wilson Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Breast, Colorectal and Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers | |
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| Cathryn Woodward Consultant Clinical Oncologist |
Breast and Urological Cancers | |
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| Clinical Lecturers | ||
| Christine Parkinson | NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and Post-doctoral Clinical Fellow | |
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| Cambridge Cancer Trials Team | ||
| Anita Chhabra | Clinical Trials Pharmacist | |
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| Pippa Corrie | WACRN Lead Clinician | |
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| Tim Eisen | Unit Director | |
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| Vanessa Goss | Radiotherapy Trials Co-ordinator | |
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| Roy Harris | WACRN Manager | |
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| Vicky Kingshott | Senior Clinical Trials Administrator | |
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| Anne-Laure Vallier | Translational Trials Co-ordinator - Breast | |
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| Nat Upton | Senior Clinical Trials Co-ordinator: | |
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| NHS Managment Team | ||
| Helen Balsden | Senior Clinical Nurse: Tel: 01223 596 039 | |
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| Tim Eisen | Professor of Oncology: Tel: 01223 769312 | |
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| David Gilligan | Clinical Director: Tel: 01223 216555 | |
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| Liz Hunt | Assistant Director of Operations : Tel: 01223 216271 | |
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| Jenny Palmer | Deputy Operations Manager: Tel: 01223 216 558 | |
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| Simon Thomas | Head of Radiotherapy Physics: Tel: 01223 216 542 | |
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| Kath Walker | Head of Radiotherapy: Tel: 01223 217 241 | |
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