Robert Hawkins

• Job title

  Cancer Research UK Professor and Director of Medical Oncology/Honorary Consultant Medical Onocologis

• Qualifications

  MA MB BS PhD FRCP

• Speciality

  Treatment of renal (Kidney) cancer and cancer of the stomach/oesophagous. Also specialist in developing immune therapies for cancer - particularly Adoptive Cell Therapy

• Year started at Christie

  1998

Roles and responsibilities

• At The Christie

   

• At other sites

   

• Research

  Main clinical interests Renal Cell Cancer and upper Gastro-intestinal cancers
  Chief Investigator/Principal Investigator of over 10 current phase II/III trials of new treatments for kidney cancer
  Research interest in immunology of /immunotherapy trials for renal cancer, oesophago-gastric cancer, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, melanoma and colorectal cancer
  Principal Investigator of key Phase I/II trials of Cellular Therapy, Cancer Vaccines, Novel antibody fusion proteins
  Lead aspects of research in Europe on Adoptive Cellular Therapy of Cancer as co-ordinator of the ATTACK project (www.ATTACK-cancer.org)
  Lead aspects of training in Adoptive Cell Therapy for Cancer as co-ordinator of the FP7 Training Network - ATTRACT
  Leading Trial of Gene Modified T cell Therapy for Gastrointestinal cancers and for B cell malignancies

• Publications

  Robert Hawkins's publications in The Christie research publications repository - Will open a new window

• Other publications

   

• Contact details

  Clinical Secretary, Rita Dowse, Tel: 0161 446 3208, Email: Rita.Dowse@christie.nhs.uk