Professor John K Field MA, PhD, BDS, FRCPath.

Professor John Field, PhD, FRCPath has a Personal Chair in Molecular Oncology at the University of Liverpool. He is a Visiting Professor at University College London, holds the post of Director of Research of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme and is Chair of the EU Early Lung Cancer Detection Group.

He is the principle investigator of the Liverpool Lung Project, a 10 year molecular epidemiological study into the early detection of lung cancer. He is also PI on the large EU Early Lung Cancer study funded by the Commission. Both of these trials form part of the NCRI Lung Cancer portfolio and he is a member of the NCRI Study Group. He has also been heavily involved in the identification of molecular diagnostic markers in head and neck cancer and has led the team searching for the familial oesophageal cancer gene (TOC) over the past decade, which has been funded by the MRC, CRC and NWCRF.

Professor Field is the author of over140 international (peer reviewed) papers in his area of expertise and has given more than 200 presentations at medical and scientific conferences around the world.

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