The Data Advisory Board advises us on the development and delivery of our research data strategy.
Through this strategy, we aim to realise the potential of the cancer research data that we fund through improved data sharing and data science approaches. Together we will create a research data ecosystem that best serves cancer research for the benefit of patients and the public.
Explore our research data strategyThis board is a group of international experts who bring a unique perspective on oncology data science, including trends and advances. They help us to consider the unique role we can play in this space with advice spanning a wide range of topics and activities relevant to our work in research data, such as:
current and future data programmes and funding streams
computing and infrastructure
research data findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability
training, careers and research capacity to carry out quality data science
patient and public involvement and engagement
therapeutic translation
community and culture
sustainability, including environmental
equality, diversity and inclusion
Chair
Professor of Genomic Medicine
Director of Therapeutics Data Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Patient Representative
Expert Data Adviser, use MY data
Director of Research and Clinical Trials, NHS England
Director, UK National Quantum Computing Centre
Professor of Biostatistics, University of Oxford
Patient Member, Cancer Research UK’s Clinical Research Committee and Experimental Medicine Expert Review Panel
Member, Health Data Research UK’s Public Advisory Board
Founder and Chief Executive, MDTi
Commercial Advisor, PIONEER
Non-Executive Director and Chair of Digital, Implementation and Research, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Senior Association, Royal Society of Medicine
Visiting Professor for Health, Education and Life Sciences, Birmingham City University
UK Home Office Independent Person to advise on the Windrush Compensation Scheme
Executive Vice President Corporate Development, Exscientia
Non-Executive Director, Cancer Research Horizons
Ethox Centre Director and Professor of Bioethics, University of Oxford
Ethics Lead, Our Future Health
Director, MRC’s Adolescent Health Study
Professor of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh
Honorary Consultant Neurologist, NHS Lothian (acute stroke service)
Patient Representative
Ambassador, Little Princess Trust
Ambassador, brainstrust
Cancer Research UK Children's and Young People's Cancers Insights Panel
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