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Contact information


nicola.sibson@oncology.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 225836

Research Theme

Tumour Microenvironment (Co-Investigator)

Websites

COLLABORATORS

Dr Gilles Bonvento and Dr Carole Escartin, MIRCen, Paris, France
Professor Anthony Chalmers, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Dr Rasheed Zakaria and Mr Michael Jenkinson, The Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK


Nicola Sibson

Professor of Imaging Neuroscience

  • Senior Group Leader, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology
  • Supernumerary Fellow, University College

Research Summary

Our research goals are to identify the role of the inflammatory and metabolic microenvironment in brain metastasis, and to develop imaging biomarkers for tumour detection and monitoring.

Biography

Following her PhD, Nicola spent 4 years at Yale University before joining the MRC Biochemical and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Unit in Oxford. She then moved to the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics as a University Research Lecturer and joined the Oxford Institute in 2007.

She has given numerous plenary lectures at national and international meetings, including the prestigious British Neuropathological Society Lecture at the Neuro-Oncology Society Annual Conference.

She serves on funding panels and advisory boards and was recently made a Special Supernumerary Fellow of University College Oxford.

GROUP MEMBERS

Claire Bristow, Research Assistant
Sandra Campbell, Project Manager, DPFS
Vasiliki Economopoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher
Vanessa Johanssen, Research Assistant
Alexandr Khrapichev, Postdoctoral Reseacher
James Larkin, Postdoctoral Researcher
Maria Pannell, Postdoctoral Researcher
Manon Simard, DPhil Student
Yasemin Turan MSc Student
Niloufar Zarghami, DPhil Student