Key staff in the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Head of Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Professor of Radiobiology
Director of Cancer Research UK RadNet Birmingham
Operations Manager
Prinicipal Investigators
Prinicipal Investigators
- Professor Jason Parsons
(Interim) Head of Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Professor of Radiobiology
Director of Cancer Research UK RadNet Birmingham - Dr Animesh Acharjee
Associate Professor
Deputy Programme Director, MSc in Health Data Science (Dubai)
EDI Lead, Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Maria Chiara Arno
Birmingham Fellow
Associate Professor in Polymeric Biomaterials
School of Chemistry - Dr Roland Arnold
Research Fellow
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Paul Badenhorst
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Timothy Barrett
Leonard Parsons Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health
Director, Centre for Rare Disease Studies
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Andrew Beggs
Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery
Deputy Director – Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Andrew Bell
Lecturer in Cancer and Genomic Sciences
MSc Genomic Medicine Programme Lead
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Fedor Berditchevski
Reader in Epithelial Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Richard T. Bryan
Director of the Bladder Cancer Research Centre
Professor in Urothelial Cancer Research
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Mathew Coleman
Head of Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Professor in Tumour Cell Biology
Theme Lead for Translational Biology and Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Gianmarco Contino
Associate Professor of Cancer Genomic Medicine
Honorary Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Consultant
Head of the Cancer Structural Variation and Aneuploidy Research Lab (c-StAR)
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Clare Davies
Professor of Cancer Cell Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Jon Frampton
Professor of Stem Cell Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Aga Gambus
Professor of DNA Metabolism
Wellcome Trust and Lister Fellow
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Paloma Garcia
Associate Professor of Stem Cells and Genome Stability
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Susanne Gatz
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Oncology
Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Oncology
Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit - Dr Deena Gendoo
Associate Professor in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Programme Director, MSc Bioinformatics Programme
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Georgios V. Gkoutos
Chair of Clinical Bioinformatics, Joint Director of the Centre for Health Data Science
Associate Director of HDRUK Midlands, Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
Programme Director for Health Data Science
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Marc Haber
Associate Professor
Director of the Health Data Science Programme in Dubai
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Martin R Higgs
Associate Professor for Genomics and Rare Disease
Deputy Director, Centre for Rare Disease Studies
Department EDI Lead
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Maarten Hoogenkamp
Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Bennett Fellow
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Andreas Karwath
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Vasileios Panagiotis Lenis
Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and Health Data Science Education
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Hisham Mehanna
Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (interdisciplinary research)
Director, Institute for Global Innovation and Institute for Advanced Studies
Director, Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education (InHANSE)
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Rui Monteiro
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Jo Morris
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Ferenc Mueller
Professor in Developmental Genetics
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Paul Nankivell
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Honorary Consultant ENT/Head & Neck Surgeon
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Elena Odintsova
Associate Professor in Cancer Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Claire Palles
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Jo Parish
Professor of Tumour Virology
Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer, College of Medicine and Health
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Mr Prashant Patel
Associate Clinical Professor, Urology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Andrew Peet
Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology (NIHR)
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Eva Petermann
Professor of Genome Stability
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Guy Pratt
Professor of Haematology (Haemato-Oncology)
Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit - Dr Anas Ahmad Rana
Associate Professor Statistical Machine Learning
Deputy Section Lead Data Science & Bioinformatics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Mamunur Rashid
Assistant Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Daniel Rea
Deputy Clinical Director – Late Phase Adult Solid Tumour
Professor of Medical Oncology
Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit - Dr Marco Saponaro
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Sovan Sarkar
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Mr Neil Sharma
Clinician Scientist
Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Steve Smerdon
Professor of Structural Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Tatjana Stankovic
Professor in Cancer Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Grant Simon Stewart
Professor of Cancer Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Sudha Sundar
Professor of Gynaecological Cancer
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Malcolm Taylor
Emeritus Professor of Cancer Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Dr Andy Turnell
Senior Lecturer
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Bryan Michael Turner
Emeritus Professor Of Experimental Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Richard Tuxworth
Deputy Head of Department (Education)
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Douglas Ward
Senior Research Fellow
Bladder Cancer Research Centre (BCRC) Theme Lead for Biomarkers & Proteomics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Colin Watts
Professor of Neurosurgery, Chair Birmingham Brain Cancer Programme, University of Birmingham
Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon, University Hospitals Birmingham
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Victoria Wykes
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Honorary Neurosurgical Consultant
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Honorary Staff and Associates
Honorary Staff and Associates
- Professor Simon Bach
Professor of Colorectal Surgery / Head of Section - Surgery
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Constanze Bonifer
Emeritus Professor of Experimental Haematology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Peter Cockerill
Emeritus Professor of Cytokine Gene Regulation
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Nicholas James
NIHR Senior Investigator
Honorary Professor of Clinical Oncology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Elaine Leung
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer (Gynaecological Oncology)
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Dr Boris Noyvert
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Bioinformatics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Andrew Peet
Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology (NIHR)
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Alan Bernard Rickinson
Professor of Cancer Studies
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences - Professor Bryan Michael Turner
Emeritus Professor Of Experimental Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences