Professor Pamela Kearns

Pam Kearns is Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology at the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at Birmingham Women and Children’s Hospital. She is Director of the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences.

She held the position of Director of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU) from 2012 to 2023. As Director of CRCTU, she led the research strategy for one of UK’s largest cancer trials unit, delivering a trials portfolio of over 100 multi-centre and international cancer trials for a wide-range of cancers, occurring in all children, young people and adults, notably leading the National Children’s Cancer Trials Team responsible the vast majority of UK’s clinical trial portfolio for children and young people with cancer. Her research is focused on research in childhood acute leukaemia’s and lymphomas and drug development and innovation in the design and delivery of clinical trials for childhood cancers.

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