Dr Stefan Meyer MD PhD MRCPCH

Clinician Scientist/Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist
- Email: stefan.meyer@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 446 3094
- Fax: 0161 446 3092
c/o Young Oncology Unit
Christie Hospital
Wilmslow Road
Manchester M20 4BX
UK
Biography
Graduated in Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. MD University of Hamburg in 1993. Basic Paediatric training in Lubeck, Germany, and Manchester. MRCP/MRCPH(UK) 1995. Higher Specialist Training in Paediatrics and Paedriatric Oncology in Manchester. Leukaemia Research Fund Clinical Research Fellow 2000 – 2004, Paediatric Oncology, Manchester. PhD 2004, University of Manchester.
Since 2005 Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist / Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Stem Cell and Leukaemia Proteomics Laboratory, Paterson Institute of Cancer Research, and clinically in the Department of Paediatric and Adoloscent Oncology of the Univesity of Manchester at Royal Manchester Children’s and Christie Hospitals.
Selected publications
2007
- Meyer, S, Fergusson, W, Whetton, A, Moreira-Leite F, Pepper SD, Miller, CCJ, Saunders EK, White, DDJ, Will AM, Eden, OB, Ikeda H, Ullmann R, Tuerkmen S, Gerlach A, Klopocki E, Tönnies H. (2007). Amplification and translocation of 3q26 with overexpression of EVI1 in Fanconi anemia derived childhood acute myeloid leukemia with biallelic FANCD1/BRCA2 disruption. Genes Chromosome Cancer, 46 (4), 359-372. Full text doi:10.1002/gcc.20417 further details
2006
- Meyer S, White DDJ, Will AM, Eden OB, Sim A, Brown R, Strathdee G. (2006). No evidence of significant silencing of Fanconi genes FANCF and FANCB or Nijmegen breakage syndrome gene NBS1 by DNA hyper-methylation in sporadic childhood leukaemia. Br J Haematol in press, 134, 61-63. Full text doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141.2006.06107.x further details
- Meyer, S, Barber, L, White, DDJ, Andrew M. Will, Birch, JM, Janice A. Kohler, Ersfeld, KK.., Eric Blom, Hans Joenje, Eden, OB, Taylor, GM. (2006). Spectrum and significance of variants and mutations in the Fanconi anaemia group G gene in children with sporadic acute myeloid leukaemia. British Journal of Haematology, 133, 284-293. Full text doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141.2006.05985.x further details
2005
- Meyer, S, Fergusson, W, Oostra AB , Medhurst AL, Waisfisz Q, de Winter JP, Chen F, Carr TF, Clayton-Smith, J, Clancy, T, Green M, Barber, L, Eden, OB, Will AM, Joenje H, Taylor, GM. (2005). A cross- linker sensitive myeloid leukaemia cell line from a 2-year-old boy with severe Fanconi Anaemia and bi-allelic FANCD1/BRCA2 mutations. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer, 42(4), 404-415. Full text doi:10.1002/gcc.20153 further details