Information about Research in Oncology
Research Group Leaders
Research Group Leaders (Principal Investigators) direct teams of scentists whose research spans a broad range of activities.
We have 37 Group Leaders in total; 19 affiliated members of the Department of Oncology and 18 associate staff who are affiliated with other University Departments or Research Institutes but work closely within the Department of Oncology. Eighteen of our current Group Leaders are also clinically qualified.
For a list of our affiliated, associated, clinically qualified and former Group Leaders, please click on the following headings:
- Affiliated Group Leaders
- Associated Group Leaders
- Clinically qualified Group Leaders
- Former Group Leaders
Please note, prospective PhD and MPhil students should follow application instructions given under the "Prospective Graduate Students" heading on their proposed supervisor's (Group Leader) personal webpage.
Affiliated Group Leaders
Group Leaders affiliated with the Department of Oncology are listed below in alphabetical order of surname (please click on each name for a Group Leader's contact details, research interests and application instructions for prospective graduate students):
- Neil Burnet - Radiation Oncology
- Carlos Caldas - Breast Cancer Functional Genomics
- Alison Dunning - Genome Wide Association Studies, Confirmation and Fine-Scale Mapping of discovered Loci
- Helena Earl - Breast Cancer Research
- Tim Eisen - Clinical Trials and Lung Cancer Research
- Fanni Gergely - Centrosome Biology
- Vincent Gnanapragasam - Translational Prostate Cancer Group
- John Griffiths - Cancer MRI and MRS; Metabolomics Magnetic Imaging and Spectroscopy
- Raj Jena - Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Radiotherapy Treatment of CNS tumours
- Duncan Jodrell - Pharmacology and Drug Development Group
- Gillian Murphy - Proteases and Tumour Micro-environment
- Adele Murrell - Epigenetics and Imprinting
- David Neal - Urological Research
- Paul Pharoah - The Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer
- Anna Philpott - Division versus Differentiation in Development and Disease
- Bruce Ponder - Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer
- Simon Tavaré - Statistics and Computational Biology
- David Tuveson - Tumour Modelling and Experimental Medicine (Pancreatic Cancer)
- Ashok Venkitaraman - Understanding Chromosomal Instability and Exploiting it for Cancer Therapy
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Associated Group Leaders
Group Leaders affiliated with other University Departments or Research Institutes, but who work closely with the Department of Oncology, are listed below in alphabetical order of surname (please click on each name for a Group Leader's contact details, research interests and application instructions for prospective graduate students):
- Shankar Balasubramanian - Structure, Function and Recognition of Nucleic Acids
- James Brenton - Functional Genomics of Ovarian Cancer Laboratory
- Kevin Brindle - Molecular Imaging in Cancer
- Jason Carroll - Understanding Estrogen Receptor Function in Breast Cancer
- Paul Edwards - Chromosome Changes in Breast and Oesophageal Cancer
- Rebecca Fitzgerald - Gastro-oesophageal Cancers
- Tony Green - Haematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukaemia
- Kim Jensen - Regulation of Epidermal Homeostasis by Extracellular Stimuli
- Phil Jones - Stem Cells and Cancer
- Florian Markowetz - Computational Biology: Cancer Genetics & Genomics and Stem Cell Biology
- Carla Martins - Modelling tumour development and therapy
- Masashi Narita -Cellular Senescence and Tumour Suppression
- Duncan Odom - Regulatory Systems Biology Laboratory
- Nitzan Rosenfeld - Molecular and Computational Diagnostics
- Jacqueline Shields - Defining a Role for Lymphatics in the Developing Tumour Microenvironment
- John Stingl - Mammary Gland Stem Cell Biology
- Fiona Watt - Epithelial Cell Biology (Skin)
- Doug Winton - Stem Cell Biology of the Intestine
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Clinical Scientists
Group Leaders who are also trained clinicians are listed below in alphabetical order (please click on their names for contact details and research & clinical interests):
- Neil Burnet
- James Brenton
- Carlos Caldas
- Helena Earl
- Tim Eisen
- Rebecca Fitzgerald
- Vincent Gnanapragasam
- Tony Green
- John Griffiths
- Raj Jena
- Duncan Jodrell
- Phil Jones
- Masashi Narita
- David Neal
- Paul Pharoah
- Bruce Ponder
- David Tuveson
- Ashok Venkitaraman
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Former Group Leaders
See below for details of our previous affiliated and associated Group Leaders.
- Nick Coleman - Novel Approaches to Cancer Diagnosis
- Ermanno Gherardi - Plasminogen related growth factor: Structure, Function and Therapeutic Targets.
- Guillermo de la Cueva Méndez - Toxin-Antitoxin Pairs in Biotechnology and Therapy
- Laura Itzhaki - Integrating Biophysics into Medicine: Cell Cycle Regulation and Protein Degradation
- Ron Laskey - Control of Mammalian DNA Replication