Information about Research in Oncology
Site Specific Cancers
Our research into site specific malignancies involves identifying abnormalities in cancers by studying the biology of both normal and tumour cells within a specific tissue.
Our research groups working on specific tumour types draw on both the overall expertise of the Department and the wider Cambridge scientific community involved in cell biology, genomics, imaging and in vivo modelling.
Each of our tumour specific research programmes have strong links with the relevant clinic at Addenbrooke's Hospital and are led by clinically qualified group leaders based within laboratories throughout the Department.
For information about research projects within this thematic, click on the following headings:
- Blood (cancer of different types of blood cells, i.e. haematological malignancies)
- Breast
- Central Nervous System (brain and spinal tumours)
- Colorectal (bowel, intestine and rectum)
- Lung
- Gynaecological (cervix, ovary, uterus)
- Pancreas
- Sarcoma (cancer of connective tissues - muscle, bone, nerves, blood vessels, fat and fibrous tissues)
- Skin
- Stomach and oesophagus
- Teenage and Young Adult Cancers
- Urological (bladder, kidney and prostate)
Blood ( haematological malignancies)
- Tony Green - Haematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukaemia
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Breast
- Carlos Caldas - Breast Cancer Functional Genomics
- Jason Carroll - Understanding Estrogen Receptor Function in Breast Cancer
- Alison Dunning - Genome Wide Association Studies, Confirmation and Fine-Scale Mapping of discovered Loci
- Helena Earl - Clinical and Translational Research in Breast and Gynaecological Cancers With the Aim of Individualising Cancer Treatments for Patients
- Paul Edwards - Chromosome Changes in Breast and Oesophageal Cancer
- Florian Markowetz - Computational Biology: Cancer Genetics & Genomics and Stem Cell Biology
- Paul Pharoah - The Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer
- Bruce Ponder - Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer
- Nitzan Rosenfeld - Molecular and Computational Diagnostics
- John Stingl - Mammary Gland Stem Cell Biology
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Central Nervous System (brain & spinal tumours)
- Neil Burnet - Radiation Oncology
- Raj Jena - Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Radiotherapy Treatment of CNS tumours
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Colorectal (bowel, intestine and rectum)
- Duncan Jodrell - Pharmacology and Drug Development Group
- Paul Pharoah - The Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer
- Doug Winton - Stem Cell Biology of the Intestine
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Lung
- Tim Eisen - Management of Renal Cancer, Lung Cancer and Pre-malignant Lung Disease
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Gynaecological (cervix, ovary, uterus
- James Brenton - Functional Genomics of Ovarian Cancer Laboratory
- Helena Earl - Clinical and Translational Research in Breast and Gynaecological Cancers With the Aim of Individualising Cancer Treatments for Patients
- Paul Pharoah - The Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer
- Nitzan Rosenfeld - Molecular and Computational Diagnostics
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Pancreas
- Duncan Jodrell - Pharmacology and Drug Development Group
- David Tuveson - Tumour Modelling and Experimental Medicine (Pancreatic Cancer)
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Sarcoma (cancer of connective tissues)
- Neil Burnet - Radiation Oncology
- Helen Hatcher - Teenage and Young Adult Cancers; Ovarian Cancer and Sarcoma
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Skin
- Kim Jensen - Regulation of Epidermal Homeostasis by Extracellular Stimuli
- Fiona Watt - Epithelial Cell Biology (Skin)
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Stomach & oesophagus
- Paul Edwards - Chromosome Changes in Breast and Oesophageal Cancer
- 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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Teenage and young adult cancers
- Helen Hatcher - Teenage and Young Adult Cancers; Ovarian Cancer and Sarcoma
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Urological (bladder, kidney and prostate)
- Tim Eisen - Management of Renal Cancer, Lung Cancer and Pre-malignant Lung Disease
- Vincent Gnanapragasam - Translational Prostate Cancer Group
- David Neal - Urological Research
- Nitzan Rosenfeld - Molecular and Computational Diagnostics