Department of Oncology
We research vital strands in Oncology, including brain cancer biology, cancer metastasis, glioblastoma and treatment resistance.
Head of Department
Research groups
- Antibody Based Medicines
Professor Kerry Chester - Applied Brain Cancer Biology
Mr Ciaran Scott Hill - Brain Vascular Biology and Brain Cancer Biology
Dr Thomas Wälchli - Cancer Drug Development
Professor Tim Meyer - Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability
Professor Charles Swanton - Cancer Genome Evolution
Professor Nicholas McGranahan - Cancer Metastasis Lab
Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani - CRUK Drug-DNA Interactions Research Group
Professor John Hartley and Professor Daniel Hochhauser - Carcinoma of Unknown Primary
Professor John Bridgewater - Cell Communication
Professor Chris Tape - Cell Signalling
Professor Bart Vanhaesebroeck - Computational Cancer Biology
Professor Jasmin Fisher - Computational Cancer Genomics
Dr Simone Zaccaria - Glioblastoma
Dr Paul Mulholland - Head and Neck Cancers
Dr Martin Forster - Samantha Dickson Brain Cancer Unit
Professor Simona Parrinello - Treatment Resistance Group
Professor Gerhardt Attard - Tumour ImmunoGenomics and Immunosurveillance
Dr Kevin Litchfield - Urological Cancer Biology Group
Dr Mark Linch
Navigate to Cancer Institute researcher receives lifetime achievement award
Cancer Institute researcher receives lifetime achievement award
Dr Jonathan Ledermann has received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Gynaecological Cancer Society (IGCS) for his outstanding impact on gynaecologic oncology.
31 July 2025
