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 in 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 Charles Craddock – Haemato-oncology trials
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)
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
Systematic Review
Dr Jayne Wilson
Trial Management
Miss Nicola Fenwick and Mrs Anna Lawson – 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)
Miss Shamyla Siddique - BPMC Industry
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)