Team member

Name Dr Joaquín Dopazo Home institution Fundación Progreso y Salud Contact details Email: Joaquin.dopazo@juntadeandalucia.es Social media: http://es.linkedin.com/pub/joaquin-dopazo/9/690/14 | @xdopazo Institutional biography webpage: https://www.clinbioinfosspa.es/people Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Dr Dopazo is the Director of the Bioinformatics Area at the Fundación Progreso y Salud.  His interests include functional genomics, systems biology and development of algorithms and software for…

Name Dr Javier Martin-Broto Home institution Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz Hospital Contact details Email: jmartin@atbsarc.org Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiermartinbroto/ Institutional biography webpage: https://www.fjd.es/iis-fjd/es/areas-grupos-investigacion/cancer/oncologia-medica Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Dr Martin-Broto has been a Medical Oncologist since 1994 and obtained his PhD degree on…

Name Mr Anant Desai Home institution The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Contact details Email: anant.desai@uhb.nhs.uk Social media: @anantmdesai Institutional biography webpage: http://uhbvid.uk/Sarcoma/sarcoma-team.htm Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Mr Desai was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon to the Midlands Abdominal and Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Unit in 2012.  His research interests include whole genomic sequencing in sarcoma and pre-operative psychological…

Name Dr Ioanna Nixon Home institution The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre Contact details Email: Ioanna.Nixon@ggc.scot.nhs.uk | Ioanna.Nixon@strath.ac.uk Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ioanna-fragkandrea-nixon-b3449516 | @Ioanna_Nixon Institutional biography webpage: https://www.beatson.scot.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/about-cancer/cancer-types/sarcoma/the-team/the-team/consultants/ioanna-nixon/ | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cancersciences/staff/ioannafragkandrea-nixon/ Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Dr Nixon is an NHS consultant clinical oncologist in soft tissue sarcomas, bone sarcomas and GISTs at the Beatson West of Scotland…

Name Professor Valerie Brunton Home institution Edinburgh Cancer Research – University of Edinburgh Contact details Email: v.brunton@ed.ac.uk Institutional biography webpage: https://www.ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/research/brunton-group Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Professor Brunton is a Principal Investigator at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre where she leads a group studying the role of adhesion protein signalling in cancer progression.  Her team look at…

Name Professor Andrew Beggs Home institution University of Birmingham Contact details Email: a.beggs@bham.ac.uk Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-beggs-4744908/ | https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=UTkpmSYAAAAJ&hl=en | https://publons.com/researcher/1206381/andrew-beggs/ | @adbeggs Institutional biography webpage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/cancer-genomic/beggs-andrew.aspx Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Professor Beggs is based at University of Birmingham and his research interests include molecular genetics, cancer biology, multi-omics and cancer cell models. His laboratory oversees the…

Name Professor Christina Messiou Home institution The Royal Marsden Hospital and The Institute of Cancer Research Contact details Email: Christina.Messiou@rmh.nhs.uk Institutional biography webpage: https://www.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/dr-christina-messiou | https://www.cancerbrc.org/about-us/staff-profiles-christina-messiou Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Professor Messiou is the Digital Theme Lead at the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at The Royal Marsden and the Institute of Cancer Research, and a Consultant…

Name Dr Paul Huang Home institution The Institute of Cancer Research Contact details Email: paul.huang@icr.ac.uk Social media: @HuangLabICR Institutional biography webpage: https://www.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/dr-paul-huang Sarcoma Accelerator responsibilities Dr Huang is the Leader of the Molecular and Systems Oncology Team in the Division of Molecular Pathology at the Institute of Cancer Research.   His laboratory focuses on understanding aberrant…