What does the RAG do?
Our RAG is independent of our Board of Trustees. Using their differing perspectives and areas of expertise, they apply their own expertise in addition to the peer reviews of applications to ensure high quality research recommendations are made to our Board of Trustees/Executive (for research funded directly by CCLG) or to the Board of Trustees of our partner charities (where CCLG is managing a research funding programme on behalf of another charity).
Our RAG members are all volunteers who give us their time and expertise for free. We are extremely grateful to them.
How we fund research CCLG RAG requirements and conditions
RAG members
Prof Jonathan Bond
Professor of Paediatric Molecular Haemato-Oncology and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Haematologist
University College Dublin
Dr Alison Blair
Principal Clinical Scientist
University of Bristol
Dr Laura Donovan
Research Paediatric Neuro-Oncologist
University College London
Prof Mehmet Tevfik Dorak
Professor in Health Sciences
Kingston University, London
Dr Richard Feltbower
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology
University of Leeds
Jacob Grinfeld
Consultant Paedatric Haematologist
Leeds Children's Hospital
Prof Richard Grundy (Vice Chair)
Professor of Paediatric Neuro-oncology
University of Nottingham
Dr Rebecca Hill
Clinical Fellow & Locum Consultant in Paediatric Oncology
Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre and Great North Children's Hospital
Prof Karim Malik (Chair)
Reader in Epigenetics
University of Bristol
Dr Kyle Matchett
Lecturer in Molecular Immunology
Ulster University
Prof Ken Mills
Professor of Experimental Haematology
Queen's University Belfast
Helen Pearson
Advance Nurse Practitioner
Queen's University Belfast
Prof Andrew Peet
Professor of Paediatric Oncology
University of Birmingham
Dr Bob Phillips
Honorary Consultant in Paediatric and TYA Oncology
Leeds Children's Hospital
Dr Susan Picton
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist (Neurology)
Leeds General Infirmary
Dr Ramya Ramanujachar
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist
Southampton
Dr Timothy Ritzmann
Clincial Research Fellow
University of Nottingham
Prof Arturo Sala
Professor of Translational Cancer Biology
Brunel University
Dr Ali Salah
Consultant Haematologist
Sheffield Children's Hospital
Mr Charles Stiller
Epidemiologist
Public Health England, Oxford
Dr Anestis Tsakiridis
Group Leader/Lecturer
University of Sheffield
Dr Harry Bulstrode
Clinical Lecturer
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Harry Leitch
MRC Investigator, London Institute of Medical Sciences
Academic Clinical Lecturer in Genetics, Imperial College London