Dr Bristi Basu

Dr Bristi Basu is an academic consultant in medical oncology, specialising in experimental cancer therapeutics in the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She co-leads the Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre with Prof Duncan Jodrell and the CRUK Cambridge Centre Pancreatic Cancer Programme with Dr Giulia Biffi. Other roles include Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Committee member; Capacity Building leadership team within the Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre; NCRI Upper GI Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancer subgroups (lead for Novel Therapeutics workstream); Eastern Lead for NIHR CRN Early Phase Cancer Studies Specialty Group.

Her research focus is in drug development with a tumour site-specific focus in hepato-pancreatico-biliary cancers, translating preclinical findings on lead candidate agents into early phase clinical trials of novel therapeutic drugs as chief investigator, principal investigator and co-investigator in academic-led and industry-sponsored Phase I, II and III clinical trials, including first-in-human and first-in-class studies.