Our team

Director (Clinical)

 

Professor Pamela Kearns 

Pamela Kearns is Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology and the Director of the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham and an Honorary Consultant at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. She is Director of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit within the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences where she leads the research strategy for one of UK's largest cancer trials unit, delivering a wide-ranging programme of phase I-III clinical trials across all types of cancer in all age groups. She is responsible for an academic trials portfolio of > 120 multi-centre & international cancer trials for a wide-range of cancers, occurring in children, young people and adults across 347 centres in 21 countries across Europe and beyond. 

Deputy Clinical Directors    

• Professor Daniel Rea – Adult Solid Tumour Trials 
• Mr Simon Bach -  D3B (Diagnostics, Drugs, Devices and Biomarkers)
• Dr Benjamin Fisher – I-ACT (Inflammation – Advanced, Cellular Therapy)
• Professor Gary Middleton - Adult Early Drug Discovery Tumour Trials

Directors of Statistics and Trial Methodology 

• Professor Lucinda Billingham 
• Professor Simon Gates
• Professor Keith Wheatley

Director of Operations

Dr Sarah Bowden

Director of Precision Medicine Trials

Dr Rowena Sharpe

Business Support

Helen Evans 

IT

Mr Matt Barker

Nursing

Mrs Karen Turner 

Programming 

Dr Ian Nutt

Quality Management 

Susannah Mee

Statistics and Trial Methodology

• Professor Lucinda Billingham 
• Professor Simon Gates
• Professor Keith Wheatley
• Mr Piers Gaunt  
• Miss Sarah Pirrie
• Mrs Aimee Jackson

Systematic Review  

Dr Jayne Wilson 

Trial Management 

• Miss Nicola Fenwick, Mrs Anna Lawson, Dr Charlotte Firth and  Dr Jessica Douglas-Pugh – Children’s Cancer Trials 
• Mr Darren Barton  – D3B (Diagnostics, Drugs, Devices and Biomarkers)
• Dr Joshua Savage – EDD (Early Drug Development – Adult)
• Dr Anna Rowe – I-ACT (Inflammation – Advanced, Cellular Therapy)
• Ms Sophia Magwaro and Miss Claire Gaunt – late phase adult (randomised)
• Mrs Sonia Fox - Haematology – TAP (Trials Acceleration Programme)
• Mrs Rebecca Bishop - Haematology – IMPACT (Transplantation)