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Professor Peter Selby

Title

Joint BHRC Director

Email

P.J.Selby@leeds.ac.uk

Phone

0113 3430326 or contact Nicole Goldman (PA) on 0113 2065668

Address

Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine
Section of Oncology and Clinical Research
Cancer Research Building
St James’s University Hospital
Beckett Street
LEEDS
LS9 7TF

BHRC Role

BHRC Management Team member
BHRC Executive Team member
BHRC SSAC member

Research Interests

Oncology

About

Professor Selby is a consultant physician at St James’s University Hospital and has had a distinguished career in cancer research and cancer care. In 2000 Professor Selby was appointed as Director of the National Cancer Research Network, which was charged with providing a world class clinical infrastructure , and was successful in increasing the clinical trials activity in the UK in cancer four-fold and providing a model which substantially influenced developments for other aspects of health care in the U K and in many other countries across the world. He was appointed Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998, and awarded a CBE in 2001 for services to cancer research and cancer care. In 2005 he became Joint Director of the UK Clinical Research Network, which is now responsible for overseeing the development of clinical trials within the NHS across all of healthcare. In 2007 Peter became President of the Association of Cancer Physicians and also won the Pfizer Excellence in Oncology Lifetime Achievement award. Peter is also Director of the CR UK Clinical Centre and Clinical Director of LIMM.

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