OUR
SCIENTIFIC PANEL
The medical minds behind our brain matters projects
To ensure we fund the best quality and most promising research, we’ve partnered with leading medical minds from around the world.
Our scientific panel are the best in their fields and advise us on the world-leading research that with investment, will make a real difference to children facing brain cancer.
AMAR GAJJAR, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, United States
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Department of Pediatric Medicine
Co-Chair, Department of Oncology
Director, Neuro-Oncology Division
Co-Leader, Neurobiology & Brain Tumor Program
Scott and Tracie Hamilton Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research
MICHAEL TAYLOR, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Toronto, Canada
The Hospital for Sick Children Neurosurgeon
Research Institute Principal Investigator, The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre
Research Institute Senior Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
University of Toronto Professor, Departments of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
PROFESSOR RICHARD GILBERTSON
University of Cambridge, CRUK
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Head of Department of Oncology
Li Ka Shing Professor of Oncology
Director of Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre
Co-Lead of Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Co-Director of Hutchison/MRC Research Centre