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
We fund research that improves the treatment, care and support for children and young people with cancer.
CCLG RAG requirements and conditions
CCLG aims to ensure that research proposals are assessed objectively and impartially. This document details the terms and conditions within which the RAG operates and sets out the code of conduct within which RAG members are to adhere to.
RAG members
Dr Rebecca Hill (Co-Chair)
MRC Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Oncology
Newcastle University and Great North Children’s Hospital
Professor Ken Mills (Co-Chair)
Professor of Experimental Haematology
Queen’s University Belfast
Dr John Apps
Associate Clinical Professor in Paediatric Neuro-Oncology
University of Birmingham
Dr Allison Blair
Head of Cellular and Molecular Therapies
Bristol NHS Trust
Professor Jonathon Bond
Professor of Paediatric Molecular Haemato-Oncology
University College Dublin
Dr Alex Bruna
Team Leader, Centre for Evolution and Cancer
The Institute of Cancer Research
Dr Madhumita Dandapani
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist
University of Nottingham
Dr Laura Donovan
Assistant Professor and Research Paediatric Neuro-Oncologist
University College London
Professor Mehmet Dorak
Professor and Head of School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry
Kingston University London
Dr Harry Leitch
Associate Professor in Clinical Genetics and Genomic Medicine
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Karim Malik
Professor of Molecular Oncology
University of Bristol
Dr Kyle Matchett
Lecturer in Molecular Immunology and Principal Investigator
Ulster University
Dr Maria Niklison-Chirou
Associate Professor in Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Bath
Professor Bob Phillips
Professor in Paediatric Oncology and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric and Teenage and Young Adult Oncology
Leeds Children’s Hospital and University of York
Dr Susan Picton
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist (Neurology)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Professor Suzanne Turner
Professor, Department of Pathology
University of Cambridge
Dr Timothy Ritzmann
Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatric Neuro-Oncology and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist
University of Nottingham
Professor Arturo Sala
Professor in Cancer Biology
Brunel University
Dr Charles Stiller
Epidemiologist and Statistician in Childhood Cancer
University of Oxford
Professor Alex Thompson
Professor of Blood Cancer and Stem Cells and Director of Translational Medical Sciences
University of Nottingham
Dr Anestis Tsakiridis
Stem Cell Research Group Leader and Lecturer
University of Sheffield
Dr Aditi Vedi
Consultant Paediatric Oncologist
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Zoë Walters
Professor in Translational Epigenomics
University of Southampton
Dr Gillian Whitfield
Consultant Clinical Oncologist
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust