St James's University Hospital, Leeds
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Professor Susan Short, MBBS, PhD is an academic oncologist, Chair in Clinical Oncology and Neuro Oncology at St James's Hospital and The University of Leeds who heads one of the most active neuro-oncology clinical research units in the UK, including a portfolio of academic and commercial studies.
She has also run a translational research laboratory using basic research to drive clinical development, with cumulative grant income > £7.5M since 2012. This has included work on pre-clinical glioma models assessing biotherapeutic and pharmacologic approaches to improved treatment response in adult glioma as well as novel approaches to tissue based biomarkers. Major grants include CRUK RadNET radiotherapy centre of excellence and Tessa Jowell Brain-MATRIX, provide excellent additional infrastructure to develop state of the art radiotherapy, tumour and normal tissue imaging, enhanced translation of pre-clinical work and best practice molecular pathology. Leeds was designated a Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence in Neuro Oncology in 2021.
Prof Short has published >230 peer reviewed publications (>40 since 2018), 7 book chapters and 14 invited reviews on radiation biology, radiotherapy and neuro-oncology and has contributed to international guidelines and consensus statements in neuro oncology.
She has led initiatives to support consortium working with links to groups in Europe and the US including an international consortium for liquid biopsy development in glioma (BRAIN_Liquid Biopsy Consortium, established in 2019), which fulfills a significant unmet need in neuro oncology. She is President of the European Society for Neuro Oncology (EANO) and of the British Neuro Oncology Society (BNOS).
