He then moved to the Chair of Oncology Research in the University of Liverpool Department of Medicine where he initiated the research programme leading to a discovery of a new way of treating cancer by a very different approach that kills a wide range of different types of cancer by making them run out of energy but spares normal tissues. His work continued over the ten years following his retirement from Liverpool, as a visiting professor at the University of Southampton. He has also been visiting professor at the Hammersmith Hospital London and Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China.
In addition to over 80 scientific papers, he has published a book on Oncology for Lawyers, an anthology of verse, a children’s fantasy story based on quantum mechanics and an account of his own life journey.
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Educated at Penzance County Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge, and trained as a doctor at the Middlesex Hospital London UK, he completed his PhD through a Medical Research Council Clinical Fellowship at the Clinical Oncology Research Unit in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge.
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During this time he carried out the first attempt to target a human tumour growing in an immunosuppressed animal with a monoclonal antibody, in collaboration with Nobel Laureate César Milstein. In 1982 he was appointed University of Liverpool Professor of Radiation Oncology and MRC Director of the National Fast Neutron Therapy Trials also sponsored by the Cancer Research Campaign and Imperial Cancer Research Fund at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside.