Institute Group Leaders awarded promotions by the University

Dr James Brenton has been promoted to Professor of Ovarian Cancer Medicine in the Department of Oncology. Brenton’s research focuses on understanding the molecular complexity of ovarian cancer to improve treatment and patient outcome.

Dr Sarah Bohndiek has been promoted to Professor of Biomedical Physics in the Department of Physics. Her group focuses on developing novel imaging approaches that can be applied to understand the role of the tumour microenvironment in cancer progression.

Dr Doug Winton has been promoted to Professor of Epithelial Biology in the Department of Oncology. His team investigates the cancer cells in the intestinal epithelium to understand the probability of their survival and expansion at each stage and how this varies with different mutations.

Dr Florian Markowetz has been promoted to Director of Research. His team develops computational methods to link genomic profiles with quantitative measures of phenotypes, leading towards a comprehensive systems genetics understanding of cancer.

Dr Nitzan Rosenfeld has been promoted to Director of Research. Nitzan’s expertise is in liquid biopsy and translational cancer research. His research group has established applications of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) sequencing to analyze ctDNA from blood samples of cancer patients.