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KLAAS BREUR MEDAL AWARD

Gillies McKenna CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology Oxford, UK

Professor Gillies McKenna graduated 1972 from the University of Edinburgh; he then studied for an M.D. and Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. After postgraduate training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the US National Cancer Institute, Professor McKenna joined the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1987, where he became the Henry K. Pancoast Professor and Chairman of Radiation Oncology. His major interest is the study of the molecular mechanisms underlying the resistance of some cancers to treatment with radiation or with chemotherapy. He is interested in developing strategies to render some of the most resistant tumours more sensitive to treatment and is working to bring some of his research discoveries into clinical trial. Professor McKenna has received several awards and honours including a Scholar’s Award from the Radiological Society of North America, a Career Development Award from the American Cancer Society, the Weiss medal from the Association for Radiation Research, the Röntgen Medal from the Deutches Röntgen Museum, Germany and most recently the Gold Medal from the Royal College of Radiologists. Professor McKenna moved to Oxford in 2005 and is the Director of the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology. He was Head of the Department of Oncology from 2010 to April 2017. He works closely and serves on scientific boards with external funding bodies and partners. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, the Academy of Medical Sciences and of the Royal Society of Biology.

Gillies McKenna

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