CIR Seminar: Professor Timothy Chevassut

"Attack of the Clones - how clonal haematopoiesis promotes blood cancer and inflammation"

Professor Timothy Chevassut  Professor of Haematology, University of Sussex

Host: Professor Richard Weller

attendance is compulsory at our seminars for CIR MSc and PhD students

Professor Chevassut studied Medicine at Oxford University and did his clinical training in Bristol before moving to the US where he pursued a research fellowship in stem cell biology at Harvard Medical School.  He returned to the UK to complete a PhD at Edinburgh University and specialist training in Haematology in Lothian.  In 2007, he took up an academic appointment at Brighton and Sussex Medical School where he is now Chair of Haematology and also honorary consultant at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.  His main research interest is acute myeloid leukaemia and in particular DNA methylation, clonal haematopoiesis, and novel therapeutic strategies.
 

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