MRC Cancer Unit

The award particularly recognises his laboratory work in explaining how mutations in the breast cancer gene, BRCA2, predispose to cancer and how knowledge of its critical role in genome repair can be exploited to devise approaches for...

In collaboration with colleagues at Cambridge University Hospitals, the team developed a simple diagnostic test for oesophageal cancer, called the Cytosponge(TM), which the patient swallows, thereby avoiding the need for endoscopy....