Professor Louis Chesler

Professor Louis Chesler is working to understand the biology of children’s cancers and use that information to discover and develop new personalised approaches to cancer treatment. His research involves the two most common solid tumours of children – neuroblastoma, a nerve tumour, and medulloblastoma, a brain tumour. 

Louis leads the Stratified Medicine Paediatrics 2 research programme, which is developing advanced genetic tests to gain insights into the biology of relapsed childhood cancers. This information will be used to tailor treatments to the individual. Louis is also head of the Centre for Paediatric Oncology Experimental Medicine at The Institute of Cancer Research, London. He is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Association of Paediatrics and is on the editorial board for several peer-reviewed journals.