Organizing Committee Member
Karol Sikora
Chief Medical Officer
Proton Partners International
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Karol Sikora is a world respected oncologist and campaigner for better universal cancer treatment. He studied medical science and biochemistry at Cambridge. Karols forty years experience as an oncologist has taught him that the effectiveness of treatment is more important than the organisation behind its delivery. While he still remains a Consultant Oncologist at Hammersmith Hospital, where he was Clinical Director for over 15 years, he launched Cancer Partners UK, Britain’s largest independent network of ten innovative cancer treatment centres in 2009. Building on his experience as Chief of the World Health Organisation Cancer Programme and an adviser to the UNs International Atomic Energy Agency, he has also formed Cancer Partners International, which builds more affordable cancer centres in the developing world. His current major project is the creation of a network of Proton Beam Therapy centres in the UK and abroad, funded by private equity. As a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a Dean and Professor of Medicine at Buckingham University, Britains first independent university, he writes and lectures regularly on the use of biomarkers and surrogate endpoints by using molecular diagnostics to personalise therapy. His books have included Treatment of Cancer – the leading British postgraduate textbook for which he has been the senior editor for 6 editions spanning 30 years. He is married with three grown up children. He enjoys hill walking, climbing and visiting old railways.
Research Area
Proton Beam Therapy