Prof. Allan Hackshaw University College London, UK

Allan Hackshaw is Professor of Epidemiology & Medical Statistics at University College London. He started at the Cancer Trials Centre in 2003 as Deputy Director and became Director in 2021. Previously he was one of the senior academics at the Wolfson Institute of Environmental & Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University... read moreof London. He has >30 years’ experience in the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of clinical studies and systematic reviews, in a variety of disease areas including cancer treatments and diagnosis, adult and prenatal screening, and tobacco and health. This has included phase I-III clinical trials, major cohort/case-control studies, and large real-world data studies including the seminal genomics study in lung cancer TRAcking non-small cell lung Cancer Evolution through therapy (Rx). He has worked across all tumour and intervention types at the Trials Centre, been a key co-investigator on successful grant funding applications (>£138 million in total), published more than 200 journal articles and book chapters, and sole or first author of five textbooks.* He leads modules on evidence-based medicine and clinical trials for postgraduate courses at UCL and the London School of Economics. He is joint editor of the Journal of Medical Screening, and sits on the UK National Screening Committee (Adult Reference Group) and several grant funding review panels for the EU Commission (Horizon 2020 and EU4 Health programmes).