RE: Modi1 trial16 Feb 2022 12:47
Ottensmeier, Christian
Job Title: Professor in Immuno-oncology, Consultant in Medical Oncology
In the last three years his focus has increasingly become immunology and immunotherapy of head and neck cancer and lung cancers; these will be his clinical focus in Liverpool.
Integrated with his clinical practice, he runs a laboratory programme examining the role and interplay of innate and adaptive immune cells in lung cancer and head and neck cancer. This work is underpinned by systematic tissue collection, to which ~2000 patients have be recruited since 2015. He has a keen interested in developing early phase immunotherapy trials.
He manages a broad portfolio of clinical trials in solid cancers; he has co-developed a number of national NCRI studies in melanoma and lung cancer.
He has served on a number of national and international peer review committees as well as on advisory boards and DSMBs for industry led studies; he is a member Cancer Immunoguiding panel of the European “CIMT” collaborative, a member of EATI and of the editorial boards for the Journal of Translational Immunology, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy, and the newly founded open source BSI Journal “Immunotherapy Advances”.