Professor Pamela Rabbitts has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (May 2008), alongside Professor Tim Bishop, Section of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. They are among this year's election from the United Kingdom's leading medical researchers and their election to the Academy Fellowship recognises their excellence in medical science.
Pamela Rabbitts at the admissions day for new Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences, June 2008
Dr Ornella Belvedere, a medical oncologist, currently a Clinical Research Fellow in the Pre-cancer Genomics Group in the Section of Experimental Therapeutics, has been awarded a European Union Marie Curies Actions Intra-European Fellowship. Ornella and colleagues will be conducting a two year research programme examining somatic genetic changes in the early (pre-invasive) stage of lung and upper aero-digestive tract tumours and hope to find genomic abnormalities that can be developed as biomarkers that can be detected in the blood, sputum or saliva of patients, enabling earlier diagnosis of the disease.