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Professor Geoff Higgins
BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCP, FRCR, D.Phil, Clinical oncologist
Languages spoken
English
Expert in
Management of Lung Cancer, Early-phase drug and radiotherapy trials
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Professor Geoff Higgins is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist dedicated to the treatment of lung cancer and thoracic malignancies.
Professor Higgins has responsibility for radiotherapy research at the University of Oxford. His personal research involves leading both laboratory studies as well as clinical trials aimed at increasing the efficacy of radiotherapy treatment, without exacerbating side effects. He has been Chief Investigator for five clinical trials relating to radiotherapy and new imaging modalities.
To date, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Clinical Cancer Research. He has authored multiple book chapters including the Oxford Textbook of Cancer Biology
Professor Higgins graduated from Edinburgh University in 2000 and completed research in radiation therapy leading to a PhD from Oxford University in 2010. He subsequently established his own research group in Oxford and has been awarded numerous major research grants. He was appointed Chair of Clinical Oncology at Oxford University in 2022.
Career positions
- Professor of Clinical Oncology at Oxford University and Consultant Clinical Oncologist specialising in the management of lung and thoracic malignancies at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Expertise and interests
- Increasing the efficacy of radiotherapy treatment, without exacerbating side effects
- Improved technology in the treatment and diagnosis of lung cancer
Publications
My most recent publications can be found here.
Clinical interests
- Research into the development of new drugs to improve the efficacy of radiotherapy clinical trials, and cancer imaging studies
- Principal investigator and co-investigator of several major grant awards
Professional memberships
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Radiologists
- European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)