Professor Vaskar Saha MBBS, DCH, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, PhD
CRUK Professor of Paediatric Oncology
- Email: vaskar.saha@cancer.org.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 446 3094
Christie Hospital NHS Trust
Wilmslow ROad
Withington
Manchester
M20 4BX
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
Royal College of Paeditrics and Child Health
Royal College of Pathology
British Society of Haematology
American Association for Advancement of Science
American Society of Haematology
Research
1. Phase II and III trials in Childhood ALL
2. Genetic and Cellular Mechanisms of therapeutic failure in Childhood ALL
Methodological Knowledge
1. Trial Design and Analyses
2. Bioinformatics for gene expression, SNP and proteomic analyses
3. Biobanking
4. Molecular Biology
Teaching
Trained PBL Tutor
Examiner. Paediatric Postgraduate Examinations University of Malaysia
Examiner, Undergraduate Examinations, University of Malta
Co-Editor "Paediatrics" Textbook for Undergraduates, Harcourt Brace, 2nd ed 2005
Selected publications
2006
- Jon C. Strefford, Frederik W. van Delft, Hazel M. Robinson, Helen Worley, Olga Yiannikouris, Rebecca Selzer, Todd Richmond, Ian Hann, Tony Bellotti, Manoj Raghavan, Bryan D. Young, Saha, V, Christine J. Harrison. (2006). Complex genomic alterations and gene expression in acute lymphoblastic leukemia with intrachromosomal amplification of chromosome 21. PNAS, 103 (21), 8167-8172. Full text doi:10.1073/pnas.0602360103 further details
2005
- Frederik W. van Delft, Tony Bellotti, Zhiyuan Luo, Louise K. Jones, Naina Patel, Olga Yiannikouris, Alex S. Hill, Mike Hubank, Helena Kempski, Danielle Fletcher, Tracy Chaplin, Nicola Foot, Bryan D. Young, Ian M. Hann, Alex Gammerman, Saha, V. (2005). Prospective gene expression analysis accurately subtypes acute leukaemia in children and establishes a commonality between hyperdiploidy and t(12;21) in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. British Journal Of Haematology, 130(1), 26-35. Full text doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141.2005.05545.x further details
2003
- L K Jones, M J Neat, F W van Delft, M P Mitchell, M Adamaki, S J Stoneham, N Patel, Saha V. (2003). Cryptic rearrangement involving MLL and AF10 occurring in utero. Leukemia, 17(8), 1667-1669. Full text doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403039 further details
2001
- L K Jones, T Chaplin, A Shankar, M Neat, N Patel, D P Samuel, A S Hill, S Debernardi, A Bassini, B D Young, Saha, V. (2001). Identification and molecular characterisation of a CALM-AF10 fusion in acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia. Leukemia, 15 (6), 910 - 914. Full text doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2402140 further details