Research groups
Katherine Vallis
Professor of Experimental Radiotherapeutics
- Group Leader
- Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Research Summary
Our research focus is on understanding and exploiting the biological effects of external beam ionizing radiation and therapeutic radionuclides in solid tumours (breast, lung, pancreas, oesophageal and colorectal cancers among others).
Biography
Katherine undertook specialist training in Clinical Oncology at the Hammersmith Hospital and doctoral research at Edinburgh University. In 1995 she was appointed as Staff Radiation Oncologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital and Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto. She returned to the UK in 2006 to join the Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology and established the Experimental Radiotherapeutics Group.
GROUP MEMBERS
Dongxiao Yang, Postdoctoral Researcher
Hung Lau, Oncology DPhil Student
Viktoria Krol, Oncology MRes student
Yang-Hong Dai, Oncology DPhil Student
Mark Macsuka, Oncology DPhil Student (Clarendon Scholar)
Mia Dobbing, Oncology DPhil Student
Stan Fayn, DPhil Student (NIH OxCam)