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Andrew Peet and his research group are developing novel imaging techniques for the diagnosis, management and understanding of childhood cancer. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a crucial investigation in children with solid tumours but whilst it provides images of superb clarity, it gives little information on how aggressive a tumour is or whether it will respond to treatment. The aim is to address these issues by developing non-invasive methods which can tailor the treatment to the individual patient.

The group’s research has concentrated on magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a technique which can be readily combined with MRI in the hospital but which provides a chemical profile of the tumour. These chemical profiles have been shown by the team to be useful as a diagnostic aid and this is becoming integrated into clinical practice. In addition, several biomarkers of tumour aggressiveness have been identified and evaluated. This is valuable information in making treatment decisions on patients. The expertise developed in Birmingham is being translated to other centres in the UK and beyond.

1992 …2024

Research activity per year

Network

Theodoros Arvanitis

  • Engineering - Professor and Head of Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering

Person: Academic

Martin Wilson

Person: Academic, Academic-related

Yu Sun

Person: Honorary

Pamela Kearns

Person: Academic

Sue Neilson

Person: Academic

Sheila Greenfield

Person: Academic

John Apps

Person: Academic

Jayne Wilson

Person: Honorary

Carole Cummins

Person: Honorary

Simon Gates

Person: Academic

Gary Reynolds

Person: Academic, Honorary

Melanie Britton

Person: Academic

Kamlesh Patel

Person: Honorary

Christopher McConville

Person: Academic

Lesley MacPherson

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Childrens Hospital

External person

Shivaram Avula

  • Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Richard G. Grundy

  • University of Nottingham
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

External person

Dorothee P. Auer

  • University of Nottingham

External person

Simon Bailey

  • Great North Childrens Hospital,
  • Great North Children's Hospital

External person

Dipayan Mitra

  • Newcastle University

External person

Laurence J. Abernethy

  • Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Tim Jaspan

  • University of Nottingham
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

External person

Paul S. Morgan

  • University of Nottingham
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

External person

Franklyn A Howe

  • St George’s, University of London

External person

Risto A Kauppinen

  • University of Bristol

External person

Daniel Rodriguez Gutierrez

  • University of Nottingham
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

External person

Barry Pizer

  • Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Darren R Hargrave

  • Imperial College London

External person

John R Griffiths

  • Imperial College London
  • University of Cambridge

External person

Kevin M Brindle

  • University of Cambridge
  • Li Ka Shing Centre

External person

Martin English

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Nigel P. Davies

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Christopher Clark

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Benjamin Pinkey

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Lisa C.D. Storer

  • University of Nottingham

External person

Shaheen Lateef

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

S Bailey

  • Great North Childrens Hospital,
  • Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Julian L Griffin

  • University of Cambridge
  • MRC Human Nutrition Research
  • Imperial College London

External person

Ina Nicklaus-Wollenteit

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Timothy Ritzmann

  • University of Nottingham

External person

P Lewis

  • University of Gloucestershire

External person

Stephen J Powell

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Sara Burling

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Childrens Hospital

External person

Alexander P. Lin

  • Harvard Medical School

External person

L Xiao

  • Michigan State University

External person

Marie-Anne Brundler

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Caroline Dive

  • University of Manchester

External person

Edward C. Schwalbe

  • Northumbria University

External person

Nadege Corradini

  • Centre Leon Berard

External person

Jon Clayden

  • Imperial College London

External person

Paul Davies

  • University of Reading

External person

Anwar R Padhani

  • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

External person

M Stevens

  • Imperial College London

External person

Adrian L Harris

  • University of Oxford

External person

Ashley M Groves

  • University College London

External person

Andrew Jones

  • University of Manchester

External person

Yan Jun Liu

  • Southern University of Science and Technology

External person

Julie Reed

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Lynley V Marshall

  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • Institute for Cancer Research

External person

Ambarasu Loudusamy

  • University of Nottingham

External person

Helen Jenkinson

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Juliet Gray

  • University of Southampton

External person

Dipyan Mitra

  • Newcastle University

External person

Robert Dineen

  • University of Nottingham

External person

Louis Chesler

  • Institute for Cancer Research

External person

Gary J R Cook

  • King’s College London

External person

Ian Scott

  • Keele University
  • Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
  • King’s College London

External person

Jan Novak

  • Aston University

External person

Simon Paine

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

External person

Philippe Lambin

  • Maastricht University

External person

Kaye J Williams

  • University of Manchester
  • CRUK-EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre in Cambridge and Manchester

External person

Lucy Elliott

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Dow-Mu Koh

  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • Institute for Cancer Research

External person

Maria Estevez-Cebrero

  • University of Nottingham

External person

M Wilson

  • Manchester Royal Infirmary
  • University of Sheffield

External person

Tony W Ng

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

External person

Greg Reynolds

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Huijun Li

  • Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

External person

James Wason

  • MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

External person

Fatma Scerif

  • Newcastle University

External person

Karsten Nysom

  • Copenhagen University Hospitals

External person

Florence Burté

  • Newcastle University

External person

Stuart A Taylor

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Imperial College London

External person

Christian Schuster

  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

External person

Manoj V Parulekar

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Rui Shen

  • University of Pennsylvania

External person

Felicity R A J Rose

  • University of Nottingham

External person

Stephen Crosier

  • Newcastle University

External person

Alan Jackson

  • University of Manchester

External person

Lucas Moreno

  • Hospital Niño Jesús
  • Vall d’Hebron University Hospital

External person

Ruman Rahman

  • University of Nottingham
  • AstraZeneca

External person

Gordon C Jayson

  • Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Manchester

External person

Dominique Valteau-Couanet

  • Institut Gustave-Roussy

External person

Robert Simpson

  • National Physical Laboratory

External person

Denis Lacombe

  • EORTC Headquarters

External person

Ruth Ladenstein

  • Medical University of Vienna
  • St Anna Children's Hospital

External person

Steve Halligan

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Imperial College London

External person

Giuseppe Barone

  • Gt. Ormond St. Hospital for Children

External person

Simon M.L. Paine

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

External person

Ian S. Scott

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

External person

Paul Workman

  • Institute for Cancer Research

External person

P Morgan

  • Cardiff University

External person

Vicky Goh

  • King’s College London
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Bruce Morland

  • Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Graham Machin

  • NATIONAL PHYSICS LABORATORY

External person

C Michel Zwaan

  • Erasmus Medical Center
  • Princess Ma´xima Center for Pediatric Oncology
  • The Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer Consortium

External person

Hubert Caron

  • F Hoffmann La Roche Ltd

External person

Matthew Grech-Sollars

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Daniel Williamson

  • Newcastle University

External person

Gina Brown

  • Royal Marsden Hospital

External person

Nikolaos Vlachos

  • Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Magretta Adiamah

  • Newcastle University

External person

Andrew D J Pearson

  • Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden
  • Newcastle University
  • ACCELERATE
  • Institute for Cancer Research
  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

External person