Our Scientific Advisory Committee

We are grateful to our scientific advisors, listed below, who provide invaluable advice on scientific and medical matters.

Professor Victor Hoffbrand

Professor Victor Hoffbrand, DM, FRCP, FRCPath, DSc (Chairman)
Consultant haematologist, Royal Free Hospital, London.

Co-author of many key haematology texts including Postgraduate Haematology, Essential Haematology and The Atlas of Clinical Haematology.

Professor Hoffbrand chaired the panel of our 2006 grant round for research into the causes of childhood leukaemia and was a panellist on the 2005 round.

Professor Irene Roberts

Professor Irene Roberts MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPCH, DRCOG
Professor of Paediatric Haematology, St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals, Imperial College.

Professor Roberts has contributed to many important haematology texts and serves on the editorial board of the prestigious British Journal of Haematology.

She also served on the panel of our 2006 grant round for research into the causes of childhood leukaemia.

Professor Jillian Birch

Professor Jillian Birch, BSc, MSc, PhD
Epidemiologist, University of Manchester and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.

Professor Birch is involved in development of research programmes on cancer in children, teenagers and young adults at the national and international level.

She has published widely on all aspects of the epidemiology and aetiology of cancer in children, teenagers and young adults, including a major report for the European Commission.

Dr Nick Goulden

Dr Nick Goulden, MBChB, MRCP, FRCPath, PhD
Clinician, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Institute of Child Health; PI for the MRD project and chief investigator of the next UK ALL trial, ALL 2009.

Dr Goulden is a member of the CCLG leukaemia task force and the European Study Group on MRD. He is also a peer reviewer for prestigious international journals such as Lancet, British Journal of Haematology, and Leukaemia.

Professor Mel Greaves

Professor Mel Greaves, PhD, MRCP, FMedSci, FRS
Professor of Cell Biology, Aetiology of Childhood Leukaemia Team, Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Professor Greaves is the author of several books, including “Cancer. The Evolutionary Legacy”, and the recipient of numerous international awards such as the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine.

Professor Alan Preece

Professor Alan Preece, BSc, PhD, MinstRP, FIPEM, CPhys
Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol.

Professor Preece has worked on a wide range of cancer-related studies from diagnostic tests for cancer to therapies using ionising and non-ionising radiation and currently is researching microwave imaging of cancer.

He is on the editorial board of Bioelectromagnetics and has reviewed for a large number of cancer and physics related journals, as well as being a reviewer for EPSRC and other funding bodies.

Dr Brenda Gibson

Dr Brenda Gibson, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow.

Dr Gibson is the Research Director of The Paul O'Gorman Childhood Leukaemia Centre at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.

Dr Gibson has contributed to several books, including “Cancer in Children: Clinical Management”.

Professor Alan Burnett

Professor Alan Burnett, MD ChB, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci
Professor of Haematology and Consultant Haematology and head of department, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.

Chair of the Haemato-Oncology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology.

Professor Burnett has extensive experience in haematological cancers and is widely published.

Professor Eric G Wright

Professor Eric G Wright, PhD FRCPath FRSE
Professor of Experimental Haematology in the Division of Pathology & Neuroscience at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee and Research Dean of the University of Dundee Medical School.

Member of the Radiation and Cancer Biology Committee of The British Institute of Radiology, the Steering Committee of the UK Academic Clinical Oncology and Radiobiology Research Network and a member of the Editorial Board of Haematological Oncology.

Professor Poul H B Sorensen

Professor Poul Henrik Bredahl Sorensen, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Director, Division of Tumour Genetics, Johal Chair in Childhood Cancer Research. Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics and Senior Scientist BC Cancer Research Institute.

Member of Society for Pediatric Pathology, Childhood Cancer Group, Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group. Chair, Biopathology and Translational Research Committee. Executive Committee, Children’s Oncology Group. Steering Committee, Johal Program.