Childhood Brain Tumours and Epilepsy Research Group

Our aim is to understand the cellular mechanisms that underlie childhood brain diseases and improve diagnosis for children. We focus on brain tumours and epilepsy.

Recent publications

Molecular characteristics of long-term epilepsy-associated tumours (LEATs) and mechanisms for tumour-related epilepsy (TRE) Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2018

British Neuropathological Society and International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging expert consensus statement for post mortem neurological imaging Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2018

DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours Nature 2018

Comprehensive molecular characterisation of epilepsy-associated glioneuronal tumours. Acta Neuropathologica 2017

Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained from Epilepsy Surgery. New England Journal of Medicine 2017

CNS embryonal tumours: WHO 2016 and beyond Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2017

Taxonomy of CNS Tumours; A Series of Three Short Reviews on the WHO 2016 Classification and Beyond. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2017

Novel molecular subgroups for clinical classification and outcome prediction in childhood medulloblastoma: a cohort study. The Lancet Oncology 2017

Low-grade epilepsy-associated neuroepithelial tumours in the 2016 WHO classification of tumours of the nervous system: what's old, new and blue? Nature Reviews Neurology 2016