Professor Lucinda Billingham BSc MSc PhD CStat

Professor Lucinda Billingham

Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Professor of Biostatistics
Director of Biostatistics, Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit

Contact details

Address
Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit
Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Robert Aitken Building
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Lucinda Billingham is Professor of Biostatistics within the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She has worked for over 25 years as a Biostatistician at their Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit and is now Director of Biostatistics for the unit working with a large team of Biostatisticians on an extensive portfolio of early and late phase trials. 

Lucinda has a special interest in lung cancer research and is the Chief Biostatistician for the National Lung Matrix Trial. As well as her PhD research on statistical methods for the simultaneous analysis of quality of life and survival data, other key areas of expertise include  application of Bayesian methods in trials, design and analysis of trials in rare cancers, early phase trial design and statistical methodology for biomarker discovery, validation and evaluation for stratified medicine. She lectures on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Birmingham, teaches widely on external courses and provides PhD supervision.