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University Hospitals Birmingham / University of Birmingham Cancer Research Centre
Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the West Midlands' cancer centre, with one of the UK's largest stem cell transplant programmes; the university's Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit ran POUT in upper-tract urothelial cancer and FOxTROT in colon cancer, plus paediatric leukaemia trials.
Also called: Queen Elizabeth Hospital BirminghamCRUK Clinical Trials Unit BirminghamInstitute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Overview
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is the tertiary cancer centre for the West Midlands, with one of the largest stem cell transplant programmes in the UK and a regional CAR-T service. The University of Birmingham's Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit has run practice-defining trials such as POUT (adjuvant chemotherapy in upper-tract urothelial cancer), FOxTROT with Leeds, and numerous paediatric and leukaemia trials for the UK's children's cancer groups. The Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences studies Epstein-Barr virus-driven cancers, lymphoma biology and cancer inflammation, and Birmingham Children's Hospital is a principal treatment centre. The city hosts a CRUK Centre and the Birmingham Health Partners academic health science system.
Location
Birmingham, GB
Type
hospital · University of Birmingham
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#41 · 60 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 60 from 30 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-24.
Matched to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, including child institutions. 220 works · 1,999 citations · 73% open access · 6% clinical trials · 10% reviews.
Oncology works per year
582022
442023
482024
392025
312026
Most works
- Keith John Roberts50 works
- James M. Halle-Smith32 works
- Nikolaos A. Chatzizacharias25 works
- Sarah F. Powell-Brett21 works
- Robert Peter Sutcliffe20 works
- Bobby V.M. Dasari20 works
- Abeer M. Shaaban19 works
- Sanjay Pandanaboyana18 works
- Ravi Marudanayagam18 works
- Rupaly Pandé17 works
Most cited
- CRUK Clinical Trials Unit
- Stem cell transplantation and CAR-T
- Urothelial and colorectal trials
- Paediatric oncology
- EBV and lymphoma research
Dion Morton
Barling Professor of Surgery, University of Birmingham
Colorectal surgerySurgical trialsNeoadjuvant treatment of colon cancer
The Birmingham surgeon who chairs FOxTROT and runs the surgical trials programme that tests how bowel cancer operations are done, not just which drugs come with them.
Gary Middleton
Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Birmingham; Honorary Consultant Oncologist, University Hospitals Birmingham; Director of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Umbrella and platform trialsImmuno-oncology in lung cancerBiomarker-directed therapy
The Birmingham oncologist who ran the National Lung Matrix Trial, the largest umbrella trial in lung cancer, and published the honest answer: most drug-biomarker pairs did not work.
Hisham Mehanna
Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Director, Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education, University of Birmingham
Head and neck surgeryHPV-positive oropharyngeal cancerDe-escalation
Surgeon who led De-ESCALaTE and PET-NECK, two trials that changed how HPV-positive throat cancer is treated and followed up.
Jonathan Brotherton
Chief Executive, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Hospital operationsNHS leadershipAcute care management
Chief executive of the Birmingham hospital trust that runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and its regional cancer services.
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