Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)

The Scientific Advisory Panel consists of eminent Medical Practitioners, who are supported by a number of Specialist Advisors drawn from research centres throughout the United Kingdom.

The role of the SAP is to:

• arrange and agree timescales for calls for research applications
• decide which Specialist Advisors should receive individual applications
• agree external peer reviewers with SAs
• receive external peer review and recommendations from SAs
• meet to determine ranking and funding priority of applications and make recommendations to Trustees

Who is on the Scientific Advisory Panel?

The Panel evaluates submissions for research funding before making recommendations to the Board of Trustees. The Panel includes:

Dr Ian Lewis MB ChB FRCP FRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric and Adolescent Oncologist, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, and Associate Medical Director for Children's and Young People's Strategy at West Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority. Past Chair, Medical Research Council, (Bone Sarcoma Working Party) and United Kingdom Children’s Cancer Study Group, (Bone Sarcoma Group), and the UKCCSG (New Agents Group). He remains an active member of these, as well as the European Osteosarcoma Intergroup and the Euro-Ewing Steering Committee. He is the clinical lead in translational research to the Candlelighters' Children's Cancer Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK Cancer Medicine Research Unit in Leeds.

Mr Robert Grimer MB BS FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Edin) Orth.
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham. Chair, Sarcoma Group, National Cancer Research Institute. Secretary, British Sarcoma Group. Past President, British Orthopaedic Oncology Society.

Dr Jeremy Whelan MD MB BS MRCP
Consultant Medical Oncologist and Clinical Director for Cancer Services, Meyerstein Institute of Oncology, University College Hospital, London. Current Chair NCRI and UKCCSG Bone Sarcoma Groups.

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Specialist Advisors

The role of the Specialist Advisers is to:

• act as a source of peer review
• advise on other experts in the area who could offer expert peer review
• advise the SAP on appropriateness and quality of research proposals

Name	Area of Expertise	Centre
Dr Cindy Billingham	Statistics	Univ. of Birmingham, Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit. Head of Biostatistics and Assistant Director of Research Methodology Visiting Research Fellow UKCCSG
Dr Sue Burchill	Translational Research - Ewing's Sarcoma	Univ. of Leeds, St. James's University Hospital. Executive Committee, British Association for Cancer Research
Dr Mark Davies	Consultant Radiologist - Imaging	Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham
Prof Tim Eden	Oncology - Paediatric & Haematological	Univ. of Manchester, Christie Hospital. TCT Professor of Teenage Cancer
Mr Craig Gerrand	Orthopaedic Surgery	Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Meriel Jenney	Quality of Life - Children	Llandough Hospital, Clinical Trials Unit, Cardiff. Consultant Paediatric Oncologist. Member, Research Ethics Committee in Wales
Prof Ian Judson	Sarcoma - Phases 1 & 2	Royal Marsden Hospital, The Institute of Cancer Research, London. Professor of Cancer Pharmacology Consultant Medical Oncologist President, British Sarcoma Group
Dr Mike Leahy	Sarcoma - Adult	Univ. of Manchester, Christie Hospital. Senior Lecturer
Prof Herbie Newell	Translational - New agents	Univ. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northern Institute for Cancer Research. Professor of Cancer Therapeutics, & Scientific Director
Prof Kathy Pritchard-Jones	Biology - Experimental medicine	Children's Dept., Royal Marsden Hospital and The Institute of Cancer Research, London. Professor of Childhood Biology and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Oncology
Dr Robin Reid	Pathology	Univ. of Glasgow, Western Infirmary, Dept. of Pathology. Senior Lecturer Vice-President, The Association of Clinical Pathologists
Prof Mike Stevens	Late effects - Children	Univ. of Bristol, Institute of Child Health. CLIC Professor of Paediatric Oncology
Prof Josef Vormoor	Experimental medicine	Univ. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northern Institute for Cancer Research. Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology

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