Professor Kevin Brindle

Professor Kevin Brindle is Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance at the University of Cambridge and a senior group leader in the CRUK Cambridge Institute. Kevin was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2012 and to the European Academy of Cancer Sciences in 2014. He was awarded the European Society of Molecular Imaging Award in 2013 and the Gold Medal of the World Molecular Imaging Society in 2014.

In the Grand Challenge, the Brindle group will be responsible for recruiting patients for hyperpolarized 13C imaging in the clinic, and for subsequent collection of tumour material at surgery for mass spectrometry imaging ex vivo and for isolation of patient-derived tumour cell lines and production of patient-derived orthotopic tumour xenografts.