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Personal Chair: Charlie Gourley

Charlie Gourley has been made a Personal Chair in Medical Oncology.

Professor Charlie Gourley

Professor Gourley graduated in genetics and medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1991 and 1994 respectively.

From 1998 to 2005 he trained in medical oncology at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre.

During this period he obtained a PhD in ovarian cancer genetics and received NHS Education for Scotland’s Clinician Scientist Award.

He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology at the University’s Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre in 2005, then Reader in Medical Oncology in 2011.

He has been the South East Scotland Cancer Research Network Clinical Lead since 2008, and in 2010, he received a Scottish Senior Clinical Fellowship Award.

Professor Gourley’s research focuses on trials of novel targeted agents in ovarian cancer and the use of translational read-outs from these studies in order to facilitate individualisation of care.

He has led research demonstrating the propensity for ovarian cancer arising in BRCA1/2 germline mutation carriers to metastasise to liver, lungs and spleen and has used gene expression data to identify subgroups of high-grade serous ovarian cancer that are characterised by angiogenic processes.

Current priorities of his group include further investigation of drug resistance characteristics of BRCA1/2 and HNPCC-deficient ovarian cancer.