Faculty

Professor Steve Clifford leads the Childhood Brain Tumour Research team (25 scientists/clinicians) at the Newcastle University Centre for Cancer, with major interests in understanding the biological basis of embryonal brain tumour development (principally medulloblastoma and ATRT), and translating these findings into improved clinical treatments.His international bench-to-bedside programme in medulloblastoma has been central to advances in […]

Professor Amar Gajjar holds the Scott and Tracie Hamilton Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital  and is a Member of the St. Jude Faculty. He is Chair, Department of Pediatric Medicine, Co-Chair, Department of Oncology, Director, Neuro-Oncology Division and Co-Leader, Neurobiology & Brain Tumor Program. Professor Gajjar’s current clinical

Dr Debbie Hicks is a Newcastle University Research Fellow of Molecular Cancer Survivorship. She graduated with Honours in Molecular Biology (Edinburgh University, 2003). Her PhD and Post Doc in Molecular Genetics at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, (2009-2014) was using of next-generation sequencing approaches to the aetiology and diagnosis rare genetic diseases. Debbie

Professor Elizabeth Molyneux, OBE., DSc., is a Distinguished Professor of Paediatrics, and ex head of department at the College of Medicine in Blantyre Malawi. She first went to Malawi in 1974 and except for 10 years back in Liverpool UK where she worked in oncology and then was Clinical Director of the Emergency Department at

Professor Matt Murray is a Professor and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist,  in the Department of Pathology, Cambridge University and Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom. He has a particular interest in the clinical and molecular aspects of germ cell tumours (GCTs), and was the first to demonstrate

Dr. John Moppett studied medicine at Jesus College Cambridge and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital London. He trained in both Paediatric Oncology and Haematology in the UK, Australia and Canada, and obtained his PhD in 2003 from the University of Bristol. He was appointed to his current role of consultant Paediatric Haematologist at Bristol Royal Hospital for

Dr Chris Plummer is cardiologist working in Newcastle where he runs a dedicated Cardio-Oncology service. His research interests include cardiovascular protection during chemotherapy and the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in cancer patients. He provides advice on the design of oncology trials and advises CRUK on the cardiovascular safety of novel agents. He has written

Dr Geoff Shenton trained in Haematology in Edinburgh, converting over to paediatric haematology training.  Appointed 2006 in Leeds where he was the lead for paediatric stem cell transplantation.  Geoff moved to the Great North Children’s Hospital in 2014 as paediatric leukaemia lead.  His interests include leukaemia and stem cell transplant.  He is the lead for

MD, PhD Professor Translational Pediatric Oncology Pediatric Oncologist, and PI. Senior Consultant pediatric oncology and hematology Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital 1997-2014. Working Group leader at the ‘Erasmus MC Postgraduate Molecular Medicine School’ which is recognized by the Dutch Royal Academy of Science and Arts, 2009-2015. Previous chair of the international EWOG-MDS foundation (2007-2016). Chair of