The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
The Christie is Europe's largest single-site cancer centre and the UK's first NHS proton therapy centre.
Proton beam therapy (2018), one of the largest early-phase trial units in Europe, Manchester Cancer Research Centre with CRUK.
- Proton therapy
- Early-phase trials
- Radiotherapy research
Ananya Choudhury is a clinical oncologist developing biomarker-guided radiotherapy for bladder cancer.
Andrew Wardley is a breast oncologist involved in the PERSEPHONE trial of shorter trastuzumab.
In 2014 his parents took him from a British hospital to seek proton beam therapy for a brain tumour abroad, were arrested, then vindicated. The case sped the building of NHS proton centres.
Built small-cell lung cancer models from circulating tumour cells and leads the Manchester institute.
Fiona Blackhall is a thoracic oncologist leading small-cell lung cancer trials and biomarker research at The Christie.