Carmel Anandadas

Consultant Clinical Oncologist at The Christie and Breast radiotherapy research lead

Research interests include breast radiotherapy and patient reported outcomes.

The Christie Consultant Profile

Email: c.anandadas@nhs.net

Cathy Tournier

Senior Lecturer

Cathy's lab is interested in deciphering the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling pathways underpinning the development of malignant tumours.

University of Manchester Research Profile

Email: Cathy.Tournier@manchester.ac.uk

Gillian Hutchison

Senior Lecturer

Gillian's main areas of interest are in early detection of breast cancer and personalisation of breast screening.

Email: gillian.hutchison@mft.nhs.uk

Isabel Pires

Lecturer in Cancer Biology

Isabel's lab focuses on exploring and understanding the biology of tumour hypoxia in the context of improving therapeutic outcomes, particularly for radiotherapy.

University of Manchester Research Profile

Email: Isabel.pires-2@manchester.ac.uk

Jamie Honeychurch

Senior Lecturer in Immune Oncology

Jamie's research interests lie in the field of onco-immunology, including developing novel radiation and immunotherapy combinations for the treatment of cancer.

University of Manchester Research Profile

Email: jamie.honeychurch@manchester.ac.uk

Katie Finegan

Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology and Therapy, Pharmacy

Katie's research interest is the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), with particular focus on a member of that protein family – ERK5.

University of Manchester Research Profile

Email: K.G.Finegan@manchester.ac.uk

Kaye Williams

Professor of Experimental Therapeutics

Kaye's lab has specific interests in the tumour microenvironment, particularly the condition of hypoxia, and how to therapeutically target this to improve cancer outcomes.

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Email: kaye.williams@manchester.ac.uk

Kate Williams

Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon

Email: kate.williams2@mft.nhs.uk

Marianne Aznar

Professor of Radiation Oncology Physics

Marianne's research focuses on the late effects of cancer treatment, especially in Hodgkin Lymphoma, breast cancer and childhood cancer.

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Email: marianne.aznar@manchester.ac.uk

Martin Baron

Senior Lecturer in Genetics

Reseach interest: Regulation of Notch receptor signalling.

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Email: martin.baron@manchester.ac.uk

Mohammed Absar

Honorary Senior Lecturer University of Manchester, Surgical Oncologist and former Director of Greater Manchester Pathway Board for Breast

Clinical based research on treatment of breast cancer in elderly women and associated treated variation. Also younger women with breast cancer and effect of socio-economy factor. Cosmetic outcome following surgery and Radiotherapy.

Email: mohammed.absar@mft.nhs.uk

Nancy Papalopulu

Professor of Developmental Neuroscience & Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow

Nancy's lab's research in breast cancer investigates the regulation of dormancy during metastasis particularly the role of oscillatory gene expression in its control.

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Papalopulu Lab Website

Email: Nancy.Papalopulu@manchester.ac.uk

Nisha Ali

Consultant Histopathologist

Nisha's research interests include intraoperative painting of breast margins by surgeons and use of new immunohistochemical predictive markers for metastatic breast carcinoma

Email: Nisha.Ali@mft.nhs.uk

Paul Shore

Senior Lecturer

Paul's research interests are transcription Factors in Human Disease.

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Email: paul.shore@manchester.ac.uk

Qing-Jun Meng

Professor of Chronobiology

Qing-Jun's lab studies 24-hour biological clocks in breast cancer cells and their response to therapy.

University of Manchester Research Profile

Email: qing-jun.meng@manchester.ac.uk

Roger Hunt

Consultant Histopathologist

Roger's special interests include breast pathology, particularly the immunohistochemistry of prognostic and predictive markers.

Email: roger.hunt@mft.nhs.uk

Sam Butterworth

Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry

The Butterworth group work on applying synthetic and biological chemistry to study and solve biological problems of relevance to human health and disease.

University of Manchester Research Profile

Email: sam.butterworth@manchester.ac.uk

Santiago Zelenay

CRUK MI Group Leader in Immuno-Oncology

Santiago's group focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms that mediate cancer-inhibitory versus tumour-promoting inflammation in order to design new therapies for cancer patients.

CRUK MI Research Profile

Email: santiago.zelenay@manchester.ac.uk

Sarah Woolner

Senior Research Fellow

Sarah's lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms used by the cell to correctly position the spindle. In particular, we are investigating how molecular forces are balanced inside the cell to position the mitotic spindle.

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Email: Sarah.Woolner@manchester.ac.uk

Sue Pritchard

Consultant histopathologist

Sue's main research interests are in the prevention of breast cancer, offering histopathological advice to surgeons and oncologists working in this field.

Email: susan.pritchard@mft.nhs.uk

Suzanne Frank

Advanced Specialist Breast Cancer Pharmacist

Suzanne's research interests include assimilating real world evidence on the efficacy and tolerability of systemic anticancer treatments and analysis of treatment pathways and patient experience to inform future service development.

Email: Suzanne.frank@nhs.net

Ahmet Ucar

Honorary Research Fellow

Ahmet's lab focuses on molecular pathways involved in the regulation of stem cells during breast development and breast tumourigenesis.

University of Manchester Research Profile

Email: ahmet.ucar@manchester.ac.uk

Chiara Francavilla

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Chiara studies how the breast microenvironment regulates signalling specificity and the formation of metastasis using a comprehensive approach, which combines quantitative omics, bioinformatics, and functional assays.

Chiara Francavilla Website

Email: chiafra@dtu.dk