Professor Robert Hawkins MA MB BS PhD FRCP

Robert Hawkins is Cancer Research UK Professor and Director of Medical Oncology at the University of Manchester and Christie Hospital. His research interests are in gene and immunotherapy. In addition to clinical training at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge he was an MRC Research Fellow with Dr Greg Winter and Dr Cesar Milstein at the MRC laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. His PhD was in antibody engineering and as a Cancer Research UK Senior Clinical Fellow he developed translational research interests in antibody based gene therapy. He was first appointed as a consultant in Medical Oncology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge in 1995 and then became Professor of Oncology at the University of Bristol in 1996. In 1998 he moved to the Christie Hospital to become Professor and Director of Medical Oncology. Clinically, Professor Hawkins focuses on treating renal cancer and cancer of the oesophagus/stomach. He heads a clinical research group undertaking trials in these cancers and also a range of early phase clinical trials of biological agents including vaccines, antibodies and cellular therapy. He has major grants from Cancer Research UK, the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund and the European Union (he is Co-ordinator of the ATTACK project; www.ATTACK-cancer.org) and has published widely in scientific and clinical journals and is an inventor / co-inventor on several antibody related patents.

•   MB, BS(London), MA, PhD, FRCP

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