Dr Robert Clarke (PhD) - personal details

I did my undergraduate BSc studies in Biology at the University of Sussex and the Université de Grenoble.  Following two and half years as a Research Assistant with Professor Potten at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, I studied the control of proliferation in the normal and neoplastic human mammary gland for my PhD at The University of Manchester (1995). Subsequently, I undertook post-doctoral training with Dr Liz Anderson in the Clinical Research Department of The Christie, Manchester. I returned to The University of Manchester as a Cancer Research UK Research Fellow in 2001, becoming a Group Leader in the Division of Cancer Studies based at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research.  I am currently a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Cancer Sciences based in the Paterson Building, University of Manchester. 

Service on committees

President and organiser of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research Conference, Manchester, 2012

Chair and organiser of the European Network for Breast Development and Cancer (ENBDC) Workshop, Luzern, Switzerland, April 25-27, 2013.

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Member of the British Association for Cancer Research (BACR) Executive Committee, 2012-2015.
Organising Committee for ‘Targeting Notch in Cancer’, Greece, June, 2011, 2012, 2013.
Co-Chair of Breast Cancer Campaign Gap Analysis Group on Invasion, Metastasis, Angiogenesis, Hypoxia, Stem and Circulating Cells, London, 15th October, 2012.
Member of Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank Access Committee, 2012-
Organising committee for 3rd QCROC Conference on Therapeutic Resistance in Cancer, Montreal, Canada, 15th – 17th March, 2012.
 

Editorial work

Associate Editor:
American Journal of Pathology, 2008-
Breast Cancer Research, 2005-

Editorial Board:
Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia, 2005-
Current Stem Cell Research and Therapy, 2005-

BSc (Hons), PhD

President, International Association for Breast Cancer Research

Associate Editor: Breast Cancer Research and American Journal of Pathology

Lectures on Cancer Stem Cells in final year BSc Biology and MSc Oncology courses.