Louis Chesler MD, PhD

Professor Louis Chesler is working to discover and develop new drugs for children’s cancers that respond poorly to existing treatment. His research involves the three most common solid tumours of children – neuroblastoma, a nerve tumour, rhabdomyosarcoma, a muscle tumour, and medulloblastoma, a brain tumour. He leads the Paediatric Solid Tumour Biology and Therapeutics Team at The Institute of Cancer Research.

Born in South Africa, Professor Chesler went to to complete his early scientific and medical training in the US, taking his Bachelor of Science (Honours) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MD and PhD at Northwestern University and Medical School in Chicago. During this time he also worked for the US government’s National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute as an Intramural Fellow. In 1995, he joined the University of California, San Francisco, working as a paediatric oncology consultant and running a neuroblastoma research programme, before moving to the ICR in 2007 as a Senior Clinical Lecturer.