Ian Kunkler MA, MB, MChir

Professor Ian Kunkler (www.iankunkler.org.uk) is Consultant and Honorary Professor in Clinical Oncology at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre, University of Edinburgh. He qualified in Medicine at Cambridge University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. After experience in general medicine in Nottingham, he moved to Edinburgh and trained in Clinical Oncology. He spent a year as a French Government and EEC research fellow at Institut Gustave Roussy in Paris. He was subsequently appointed consultant in Clinical Oncology in Sheffield in 1988. He returned to Edinburgh in 1992 specialising in the non surgical treatment of breast cancer. His research interests are in adjuvant trials of radiotherapy for older patients with breast cancer and the development of biosensors to optimise radiotherapy for solid hypoxic tumours. He is Chief Investigator of the BIG 2-04 MRC/EORTC SUPREMO trial, the PRIME 2 trial and co-PI of the EPSRC funded IMPACT project (www.impact.eng.ed.ac.uk) on implantable microsystems for personalised anti-cancer therapy. He has edited two editions of Walter and Miller’s Textbook of Radiotherapy and published over 150 articles. He is a past President of the British Oncological Association.