Professor of Urology
University College London
Maxine G B Tran, MBBS BSc PhD FRCS (Urol), Professor of Urology at University College London and Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon at The Specialist Centre for Kidney Cancer at the Royal Free Hospital in London, UK.
I have been interested in kidney cancer ever since I qualified from medical school and my first junior doctor placing was in Urology, over two decades ago. My exposure to kidney cancer patients, particularly those with inherited pre-disposition syndromes compelled me to want to learn more and I was awarded a Medical Research Council funded clinical training fellowship to embark on a PhD investigating the role of VHL in kidney cancer tumorigenesis with Professor Patrick Maxwell’s research team (Imperial College London). I completed specialist urology surgical training as a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) clinical lecturer at Cambridge University Hospitals and was appointed to my current post as academic lead of the Specialist Centre for Kidney Cancer in 2015.
My translational research interest is focused on early stage kidney cancer, the subset of patients that is growing most rapidly and for which there is the most pressing unmet clinical need for better management and reduction of harm from over-treatment. I am currently Chief Investigator on three NIHR funded investigator-led clinical research studies, 'Nephron Sparing Treatment for small renal masses' (NEST, ISRCTN 18156881), ‘Investigating the Facilitators and barriers to Tumour Biopsy in the diagnostic pathway for small renal masses’ (IFIT-B, ISRCTN 16455338) and 'MULTI-centre feasibility study to assess the use of 99m Tc-sestaMIBI SPECT/CT in the diagnosis of kidney tumours (MULTI-MIBI study, ISRCTN 23705289).
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST