Advisory Board
Professor Karol Sikora , MA (Cantab), MBBCh, PhD (Cantab), FRCR, FRCP, FFPM
Professor Sikora studied medical science and biochemistry at Cambridge, where he obtained a double first. After clinical training he became a house physician at The Middlesex Hospital and registrar in oncology at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He later became a research student at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge working with Nobel Prize winner, Dr Sydney Brenner. He obtained his PhD and became a clinical fellow at Stanford University, California before returning to direct the Ludwig Institute in Cambridge. He has been Clinical Director for Cancer Services at Hammersmith for 12 years and established a major cancer research laboratory there funded by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He chaired Help Hammer Cancer, an appeal that raised £8m towards the construction of the new Cancer Centre at Hammersmith. He became Deputy Director (Clinical Research) of the ICRF. From 1997 to 1999 he was Chief of the WHO Cancer Program and from 1999 to 2002, Vice President, Global Clinical Research (Oncology) at Pharmacia Corporation. He has published over 300 papers and written or edited 20 books and is on the editorial board of several journals and is the founding editor of Gene Therapy and Cancer Strategy. He was a member of the UK Health Department's Expert Advisory Group on Cancer (the Calman-Hine Committee), the Committee on Safety of Medicines and remains an adviser to the WHO. He currently directs a cancer drug donation programme in Africa. Karol Sikora website .
Professor Peter Hylands, PhD
Professor Peter Hylands is the Head of Pharmacy Department, King's College London. Peter Hylands website .
Professor Jane Mellor, PhD
Jane read bacteriology and virology at the University of Manchester and got her PhD from the University of Reading. She started her career as a post doctoral research scientist at the University of Oxford. She then moved on to become a research fellow at Wolfson and Exeter colleges, Oxford University. In 1989, she became the Wellcome Trust senior research fellow in basic biomedical science. Her teaching career started in 1991 and todate she has tutored and supervised more than 20 graduate students gaining their DPhil degrees. Jane has published more than 70 articles in peer reviewed journals and in 2008 was made the first professor of epigenetics at the Oxford University. Jane Mellor website .
Professor Lucien Peng-Jin Ooi, MBBS (Singapore), FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCS (Glasgow), FICS, FAMS (General Surgery), MD (Singapore)
Prof Lucien Ooi graduated with MBBS from the National University of Singapore and was awarded numerous scholarships and prizes including Public Services Commission Local Merit Bursary (Medicine) and Overseas International Fellow Travel Scholarship, Japan Surgical Society, 1994. He further advanced his skills as a Senior Fellow in Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery at the Hepatopancreaticobiliary Unit, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia as well as the Queensland Liver Transplant Unit, Australia. He was made a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as well as the International College of Surgeons. He has a doctorate in Medicine awarded in 2001. In addition to routine general surgical procedures, Prof Ooi has a sub-specialty interest in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Prof Ooi sits on the panel of many international advisory boards and committees including those in the Ministry of Health in Singapore. As current Chairman of Division of Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, he oversees 14 clinical departments of various surgical specialities.