Abstract
James Larkin FRCP PhD is a Medical Oncologist at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. He was appointed a Consultant in 2008, having trained on the Marsden rotation, including a period spent as a Medical Research Council Training Fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research leading to the award of a PhD in 2005. He specialises in the treatment of melanoma and kidney cancer and leads a research team that runs a portfolio of clinical trials with a particular emphasis on understanding response and resistance to systemic therapies and intratumour heterogeneity. His team collaborates closely with basic scientists such as Richard Marais and Charles Swanton and aims rapidly to translate laboratory advances into clinical trials testing rational therapeutic hypotheses. In 2012 Dr. Larkin has been appointed Chair of the UK NCRI Renal Clinical Studies Group and at the invitation of Sian James MP he also Chairs the a national Expert Group of the Melanoma Taskforce which has recently produced a report ‘Quality in Melanoma Care: A Best Practice Pathway’.
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