It’s all change on CHECT’s Scientific Advisory Committee this year!
In July we sadly said goodbye to Prof Lorna Fraser, who had spent six years as Chair of the SAC (the body that oversees our research). As well as bringing her immense professional expertise to the role, Lorna also brought personal experience of having had bilateral Rb as a child. We will miss her clear-sighted, empathetic approach, but are delighted to welcome our new Chair, Dr Bob Phillips. Bob is Clinical Academic Paediatric Oncologist at the University of York and Leeds Children’s Hospital (in his words “basically a part-time proper doctor and part-time researcher”), who looks after a range of children and young people with cancers including retinoblastoma.
To find out more about Bob and the rest of the SAC, go to http://www.chect.org.uk/research.