Institute of Developmental Sciences

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Professor Gareth Griffiths

Director Clinical Trials Unit

Research interests

  • Gareth Griffiths is Professor of Clinical Trials and directs our Southampton Clinical Trials Unit.  He works with clinicians, research groups and other scientists in the development of important clinical trials and other well-designed studies that aim to improve the treatment of a range of cancers and other diseases, and early diagnosis of cancer.
  • His works spans the different phases of clinical trials, from small dose finding and safety studies involving a handful of patients to larger trials of hundreds of patients looking at whether the treatments are better than the current standard treatments.  His early diagnosis studies include thousands of patients looking at new ways to detect cancer early.  Ultimately, these studies could help change the way that patients are treated for the better, by creating the evidence so as the new treatments becomes the standard of care for future patients treated in the NHS.
  • Phase I-III clinical trials
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Professor Gareth Thomas

Professor of Experimental Pathology

Research interests

  • Fibroblast biology and immunology
  • Tumour microenvironment
  • Cancer Immunotherapy

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr George Bethell MBChB MPhil MRCS

Clinical Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Necrotising enterocolitis
  • Paediatric appendicitis
  • Neonatal surgery
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Dr Georgia Ntani

Senior Research Fellow
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Professor Graham Roberts

Prof in Paed. Allergy & Resp. Medicine
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Dr Gregorio Bevilacqua

Research Fellow
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Dr Guanglong Ma

Research Fellow
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Dr Hannah Metcalfe

Research Fellow
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Dr Hannah Smith

Research Fellow in Cancer Immunology
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Mrs Helen Parker

Senior Research Fellow
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