Prof. Karen Brown is the director of the Leicester Cancer Research Centre and joint lead of the Leicester Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre. She established and is co-chair of the UK Therapeutic Cancer Prevention Network and represents this network on the steering group of the Cancer Prevention Europe Consortium. Her research focuses on the discovery and preclinical development of agents for the prevention of cancer in populations at increased risk. She works to optimize the translation of these therapies to the clinic where she conducts early- and late-phase trials. She sits on several national and international grant panels and is currently Vice Chair of the Cancer Research UK Prevention and Population Research Committee. She is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International Regular Grant Programme Panel and a former President of the United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society.
Robert Graham Britton is a Research Fellow at
Leicester Cancer Research Centre, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology,
University of Leicester. Dr. Britton received a degree in chemistry and a Ph.D.
in chemical biology at Manchester University. In 2013, Dr. Britton was given
an honorary lectureship by the School of Chemistry.
Lynne Howells is the Operations Manager at the Institute for Precision Health, University of Leicester. Dr. Howells received a Ph.D. in therapeutic prevention of cancer at the University of Leicester in 2003. Dr. Howells has extensive experience of in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo translational cancer research with a focus on therapeutic cancer prevention. A key focus of this was on the delivery of bench-to-bedside cancer research programs as part of the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre Network.
