Dr John Anderson

John Anderson is Professor of Experimental Paediatric Oncology at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Honorary consultant paediatric oncology at Great Ormond Street Hospital London. He graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and in Medicine from  the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He trained in paediatrics and paediatric oncology in London and completed his PhD in cancer biology at the Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton UK in 1998. 

Since then he has been a group leader at the UCL Institute of Child Health. Since around 2005, his research group’ focus has been on childhood solid cancer immunology and immunotherapy with a particular interest in translating early findings into clinical trials,, for example through T cell engineering and T cell adoptive immunotherapy. He works in several collaborative research and clinical collaborative groups including the SIOPEN neuroblastoma trials network, the UK Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group and the ITCC solid tumour committee.