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Researchers Teams

Research division

Research team

Researcher name

Team Leaders

Dr Esther Arwert

Professor Axel Behrens

Professor Cathrin Brisken

Professor Olivia Fletcher

Professor Clare Isacke

Professor Chris Lord

Professor Pascal Meier

Professor Alan Melcher

Dr Rachael Natrajan

Dr Ben O'Leary

Dr Stephen John Sammut

Professor Nicholas Turner

Professor Andrew Tutt

Senior Researchers

Dr Beatrice Howard

Dr Dragomir Krastev

Dr Stephen Pettitt

Honorary Faculty

Professor Stephen Johnston

Dr Alicia Okines

Dr Alistair Ring

Jennifer Rusby

Associate Honorary Faculty

Research division

Team name

Acute Leukaemia

Team leader: Dr David Taussig

Aetiological Epidemiology

Team leader: Professor Richard Houlston

Biology of Childhood Leukaemia

Team leader: Sir Mel Greaves

Breast Cancer Clinical Research

Team leader: Dr Alistair Ring

Breast Cancer Collaborations

Team leader: Professor Andrew Tutt

Breast Cancer Immunology

Team leader: Professor Alan Melcher

Breast Cancer Radiotherapy

Team leader: Dr Anna Kirby

Breast Cancer Research Bioinformatics Group

Breast Cancer Systemic Therapy Trials

Team leader: Dr Alicia Okines

Breast Surgery Outcome Measures

Team leader: Jennifer Rusby

Cancer and Genome Instability

Team leader: Professor Wojciech Niedzwiedz

Cancer Biomarkers

Team leader: Professor Johann De Bono

Cancer Dynamics

Team leader: Dr Stephen John Sammut

Cancer Genomics

Team leader: Professor Richard Houlston

Cancer Pharmacology and Stress Response

Team leader: Dr Olivia Rossanese

Cancer Stem Cell

Team leader: Professor Axel Behrens

Cell Death and Immunity

Team leader: Professor Pascal Meier

Cell Division

Team leader: Professor Jonathon Pines

Chromatin Biology

Team leader: Dr Alex Radzisheuskaya

Chromosomal Translocations and Intracellular Antibody Therapeutics

Team leader: Professor Terence Rabbitts

Chronic Lymphoid Malignancies: Clinical Trials and Translational Research (El-Sharkawi)

Team leader: Dr Dima El-Sharkawi

Clinical Academic Radiotherapy (Huddart)

Team leader: Professor Robert Huddart

Clinical Cancer Epidemiology

Team leader: Professor Amy Berrington

Clinical Pharmacodynamics Biomarker Group

Team leader: Professor Udai Banerji

Clinical Pharmacology & Trials (including Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Group)

Team leader: Professor Udai Banerji

Clinical Pharmacology Adaptive Therapy Group

Team leader: Professor Udai Banerji

Computational Biology and Chemogenomics

Team leader: Professor Paul Workman

Computational Imaging

Team leader: Dr Matthew Blackledge

Computational Pathology and Integrative Genomics

Team leader: Professor Janet Shipley

Development and Cancer

Team leader: Dr Amanda Swain

Drug Target Discovery

Team leader: Professor Andrew Tutt

Dynamical Cell Systems

Team leader: Professor Chris Bakal

Endocrine Control Mechanisms

Team leader: Professor Cathrin Brisken

Endocrine Therapy Resistance

Team leader: Professor Stephen Johnston

Epigenetics and Cancer

Team leader: Professor Kristian Helin

Epigenetics and Genome Stability

Team leader: Professor Jessica Downs

Evolutionary Genomics and Modelling

Team leader: Professor Andrea Sottoriva

Functional Genetic Epidemiology

Team leader: Professor Olivia Fletcher

Functional Genomics

Team leader: Dr Rachael Natrajan

Functional Imaging

Team leader: Professor Christina Messiou

Functional Proteomics

Team leader: Professor Jyoti Choudhary

Functional Tumour Immunology

Team leader: Dr Esther Arwert

Gastrointestinal Cancer Biology and Genomics

Team leader: Professor Nicola Valeri

Gastrointestinal Clinical Oncology

Team leader: Dr Diana Tait

Gene Function

Team leader: Professor Chris Lord

Genome Replication

Team leader: Dr Gideon Coster

Genome Stability and Innate Immunity

Team leader: Dr Christian Zierhut

Genomics and Evolutionary Dynamics

Team leader: Professor Trevor Graham

Glioma

Team leader: Professor Chris Jones

Gynaecological Cancers (Systemic Therapy and Clinical Trials)

Team leader: Dr Susana Banerjee

Gynaecological Oncology Surgery

Team leader: Thomas Ind

Health Informatics

Team leader: Professor Ceire Costelloe

Hit Discovery and Structural Design

Team leader: Dr Rob van Montfort

ICR-CTSU Breast and Rare Cancers Trials

Team leader: Professor Judith Bliss

ICR-CTSU Early Phase and Adaptive Trials

Team leader: Professor Christina Yap

ICR-CTSU Integrative Genomic Analysis in Clinical Trials

Team leader: Dr Maggie Cheang

ICR-CTSU Radiotherapy, Urology and Head and Neck Cancers Trials

Team leader: Professor Emma Hall

Imaging for Radiotherapy Adaptation

Team leader: Dr Emma Harris

Integrated Pathology

Team leader: Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez

Lymphoma biology and imaging

Team leader: Dr Sunil Iyengar

Macromolecular Structural Biology

Team leader: Professor Laurence Pearl

Magnetic Resonance

Team leader: Professor Kevin Harrington

Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Radiotherapy

Team leader: Dr Andreas Wetscherek

Mechanisms and Regulation of pre-mRNA Splicing

Team leader: Professor Vlad Pena

Medicinal Chemistry 1

Team leader: Dr Gurdip Bhalay

Medicinal Chemistry 3

Team leader: Dr Gary Newton

Medicinal Chemistry 4 (including Analytical Chemistry)

Team leader: Professor Swen Hoelder

Melanoma and Kidney Cancer

Team leaders: Professor James Larkin
Professor Samra Turajlic

Molecular and Systems Oncology

Team leader: Dr Paul Huang

Molecular Cell Biology

Team leader: Professor Clare Isacke

Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Cycle Regulation

Team leader: Dr Claudio Alfieri

Molecular Oncology

Team leader: Professor Nicholas Turner

Multimodality Molecular Imaging

Team leader: Dr Dimitra Darambara

Myeloma Biology and Therapeutics

Team leader: Dr Charlotte Pawlyn

Myeloma Group

Team leader: Professor Richard Houlston

Myeloma Molecular Therapy

Team leader: Dr Martin Kaiser

Oncogenetics

Team leader: Professor Rosalind Eeles

Paediatric & Adolescent Neuro-Oncology and Drug Development (Carceller)

Team leader: Dr Fernando Carceller

Paediatric Solid Tumour Biology and Therapeutics

Team leader: Professor Louis Chesler

Post-translational Modifications and Cell Proliferation

Team leader: Dr Jörg Mansfeld

Preclinical Modelling of Paediatric Cancer Evolution

Team leader: Dr Alejandra Bruna

Preclinical Molecular Imaging

Team leader: Dr Gabriela Kramer-Marek

Pre-Clinical MRI

Team leader: Professor Simon Robinson

Prostate and Bladder Cancer Research

Team leader: Professor Nick James

Prostate Cancer Targeted Therapy Group

Team leader: Professor Johann De Bono

Quantitative Biomedical Imaging

Team leader: Professor James O'Connor

Radiation-enhanced Immunotherapy

Team leader: Dr Erik Wennerberg

Radioisotope Physics

Team leader: Dr Glenn Flux

Radiotherapy Physics Modelling

Team leader: Professor Uwe Oelfke

RNA Biology and Molecular Therapeutics

Team leader: Dr Paul Clarke

Sarcoma and Melanoma Surgery

Team leader: Professor Andrew Hayes

Sarcoma Clinical Trials (R Jones)

Team leader: Dr Robin Jones

Sarcoma Clinical Trials in Children and Young People

Team leader: Dr Julia Chisholm

Sarcoma Molecular Pathology

Team leader: Professor Janet Shipley

Short Linear Motif

Team leader: Dr Norman Davey

Signal Transduction and Molecular Pharmacology

Team leader: Professor Paul Workman

Signalling & Cancer Metabolism

Team leader: Dr George Poulogiannis

Stereotactic and Precision Radiotherapy

Team leader: Professor Nicholas van As

Structural Biology of Cell Signalling

Team leader: Professor Sebastian Guettler

Structural Biology of DNA Repair Complexes

Team leader: Dr Basil Greber

Systems and Precision Cancer Medicine

Team leader: Dr Anguraj Sadanandam

Systems Chemical Biology

Team leader: Dr Albert Antolin

Target Biology and Genomic Instability

Team leader: Dr Olivia Rossanese

Target Evaluation and Molecular Therapeutics

Team leader: Dr Olivia Rossanese

Target Validation and DNA Damage Response

Team leader: Professor Andrew Tutt

Targeted Therapy

Team leader: Professor Kevin Harrington

Telomere Biology

Team leader: Dr Max Douglas

The Adult Drug Development Unit at the ICR and the RM

Team leader: Professor Johann De Bono

Therapeutic Ultrasound

Team leader: Professor Gail Ter Haar

Thoracic Oncology

Team leader: Professor Sanjay Popat

Thoracic Oncology Immunotherapy Group

Team leader: Dr Astero Klampatsa

Translational Breast Radiobiology

Team leader: Dr Navita Somaiah

Translational Genetics

Team leader: Professor Clare Turnbull

Translational Immunotherapy

Team leader: Professor Alan Melcher

Translational Oncogenomics

Team leader: Professor Janet Shipley

Translational Sarcoma, Melanoma and Rare Tumour Surgery

Team leader: Myles Smith

Translational Therapeutic Radiography

Team leader: Dr Helen McNair

Translational Therapeutics

Team leader: Dr Adam Sharp

Tumour Functional Heterogeneity

Team leader: Dr Marco Bezzi

Ultrasound and Optical Imaging

Team leader: Professor Jeffrey Bamber

Uro-oncology Clinical Trials

Team leader: Dr Alison Tree

Vannini Group

Team leader: Professor Laurence Pearl

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