Meet our Scientists

Professor Iain McNeish is the Director of the Ovarian Cancer Action Research, Centre incorporating The Vivienne Wohl Unit at Imperial College.

We fund the work of Professor Ahmed Ahmed at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Dr Jon Krell is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Medical Oncology at Imperial College London and has a particular interest in cancer genetics.

My research group is interested in how the immune system recognises cancer and in particular, how we might manipulate the immune system to attack cancer, a strategy known as immunotherapy.

Ovarian Cancer Action currently fund an immunotherapy-based project entitled “Next generation oncolytic viruses for the immunotherapy of ovarian cancer”.

am excited to be working on the British Translational Research Ovarian Cancer Collaborative (BriTROC 2) project.

Nina is a clinical research fellow and DPhil (PhD) student based in at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Luyao Wang is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Translational Cancer Immunology at the University of Oxford. Here she tells us about her work on ovarian cancer treatment using adoptive T cell therapy.

Dr Mark P. Lythgoe is an academic clinical fellow at our Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre, providing clinical care into multiple projects and seeking to understand how genetics can affect the development of ovarian cancer - and therefore the treatment of genetic cancers.