{"id":1576,"date":"2026-02-18T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/from-lab-to-life-innovations-in-melanoma\/?page_id=1576"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:41:46","slug":"conference-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/from-lab-to-life-innovations-in-melanoma\/conference-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_module=&#8221;322&#8243;][et_pb_fullwidth_menu global_parent=&#8221;322&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; menu_id=&#8221;7&#8243; submenu_direction=&#8221;downwards&#8221; fullwidth_menu=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; module_class=&#8221;main-navigation&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; 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background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"intro\">Conference speakers<\/h1>\n<p>Find out about our conference speakers below.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Links&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -1em\"><strong>Jump to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#chris\">Chris Marine<\/a> | <a href=\"#kerrie\">Kerrie Marie<\/a> | <a href=\"#elizabeth\">Prof Elizabeth Patton<\/a> | <a href=\"#panagiotis\">Dr Panagiotis Karras<\/a> | <a href=\"#erik\">Dr Erik Sahai<\/a> | <a href=\"#victoria\">Prof Victoria Sanz-Moreno<\/a> | <a href=\"#richard\">Prof Richard White<\/a> | <a href=\"#rebecca\">Dr Rebecca Lee<\/a> | <a href=\"#david\">Dr David Adams<\/a> | <a href=\"#amaya\">Dr Amaya Vir\u00f3s<\/a> | <a href=\"#sophia\">Prof Sophia Karagiannis<\/a> | <a href=\"#evangelos\">Dr Evangelos Giampazolias<\/a> | <a href=\"#ben\">Prof Ben Fairfax<\/a> | <a href=\"#heather\">Dr Heather Shaw<\/a> | <a href=\"#santiago\">Dr Santiago Zelenay<\/a> | <a href=\"#adam\">Prof Adam Hurlstone<\/a> | <a href=\"#jonathan\">Dr Jonathan Lim<\/a> | <a href=\"#mark\">Prof Mark Middleton<\/a> | <a href=\"#brent\">Dr Brent O\u2019Carrigan<\/a> | <a href=\"#christian\">Prof Christian Blank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Chris&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"chris\">Chris Marine<\/h2>\n<p>Chris is Professor, Senior VIB Group Leader and Director of the VIB\/KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology. He received numerous national and international awards and was elected EMBO member in 2020. His interests focus on the mechanisms by which cancer-specific non-mutational (epigenetic and (post-) transcriptional) events shape tumour evolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marinelab.sites.vib.be\/en\/chris-marine-biosketch\">Read more about Chris<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Kerrie&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"kerrie\">Kerrie Marie<\/h2>\n<p>Kerrie joined The University of Manchester as a Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow in 2022, later being awarded with a prestigious University of Manchester Dean&#8217;s Prize award. Her lab focuses on understanding cell fate decisions in the embryonic melanocyte precursors of the neural crest and using these insights to shed new light on embryonic lineage cell states that are re-acquired during melanoma metastasis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.manchester.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/kerrie.marie\/\">Read more about Kerrie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Elizabeth&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"elizabeth\">Prof Elizabeth Patton<\/h2>\n<p>Elizabeth is Professor of Chemical Genetics and group leader of the Medical Research Council Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh. Her lab uses chemical genetic approaches in zebrafish to investigate gene-drug interactions in melanocyte development, as well as in melanoma biology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/elizabeth-patton\">Read more about Elizabeth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Panagiotis&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"panagiotis\">Dr Panagiotis Karras<\/h2>\n<p>Panagiotis is a postdoctoral fellow at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology (VIB-CCB) in Belgium. He is developing novel projects to address key pending questions in the field related to cellular plasticity in evolving melanoma ecosystems and how distinct cell states contribute to growth and metastatic dissemination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/author\/panagiotis-karras-ph-d\">Read more about Panagiotis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Erik&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"erik\">Dr Erik Sahai<\/h2>\n<p>Erik is the head of the Tumour Cell Biology laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London. His research is focused on the spread of cancer through the body and responses to cancer therapy. In particular, his group is interested in stromal fibroblasts and their interplay with both tumour and immune cells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibconferences.be\/speaker\/erik-sahai\">Read more about Erik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Victoria&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"victoria\">Prof Victoria Sanz-Moreno<\/h2>\n<p>Victoria is Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research. Combining cell biology, OMICs, mouse models, patient material and digital pathology, Victoria\u2019s lab works on understanding how cytoskeletal dynamics in cancer cells control local invasion, dissemination, survival and outgrowth at the secondary site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/research-and-discoveries\/find-a-researcher\/test-researcher-profile-detail\/professor-victoria-sanz-moreno\">Read more about Victoria<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Richard&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"richard\">Prof Richard White<\/h2>\n<p>Richard is Professor and Senior Group Leader, Nuffield Department of Medicine and Ludwig Cancer Research at the University of Oxford. He is a physician-scientist who trained in medical oncology and cancer genetics. His research group has made fundamental discoveries about how neural crest programmes in melanoma affect response to oncogenes, how the anatomic position of the cell determines which oncogenes the cell responds to, and how microenvironmental cells such as adipocytes can promote metastasis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndm.ox.ac.uk\/team\/richard-white\">Read more about Richard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Rebecca&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"rebecca\">Dr Rebecca Lee<\/h2>\n<p>Rebecca is a senior lecturer in medical oncology at The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and a Wellcome early career fellow. She is developing clinical trials to improve outcomes for patients with melanoma focussing on clinical decision-making based on circulating tumour DNA. In pre-clinical work, she is examining how local and systemic immune tolerance is induced through interaction between melanoma and cells within the liver microenvironment initially as a post-doc fellow in the laboratories of Prof Erik Sahai and Prof Mala Maini.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.manchester.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/rebecca.lee-3\">Read more about Rebecca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: David&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"david\">Dr David Adams<\/h2>\n<p>David is a senior group leader in the Cancer Ageing and Somatic Mutation programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and leads the Experimental Cancer Genetics Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of Pathologists, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the International Laboratory of Human Genome Research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanger.ac.uk\/person\/adams-david\/\">Read more about David<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Amaya&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"amaya\">Dr Amaya Vir\u00f3s<\/h2>\n<p>Amaya is a Clinical Scientist\/Honorary Consultant in Dermatology at Salford NHS Foundation Trust, with a practice in general dermatology and high-risk skin cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Her research aims to understand the mechanisms that drive more metastatic skin cancer in ageing patients and to develop novel therapeutic approaches for melanoma treatment by age, in metastatic organs. Amaya also leads a BRC project to develop novel biomarkers that predict skin cancer outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk\/team-member\/amaya-viros\/\">Read more about Amaya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Sophia&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sophia\">Prof Sophia Karagiannis<\/h2>\n<p>Sophia is Professor of Translational Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy at King&#8217;s College London She is a translational cancer immunologist with academic and biotechnology experience in the USA and UK. She heads a cancer antibody discovery team focused on dissecting the crosstalk between patient immune cells and cancer and on the design of novel agents for solid tumours such as melanoma, ovarian and breast cancers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/sophia-n-karagiannis\">Read more about Sophia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Back to top&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#intro\">&lt; Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; \/][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text: Evangelos&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"evangelos\">Dr Evangelos Giampazolias<\/h2>\n<p>Evangelos is a Cancer Immunologist and Group Leader at the CRUK Manchester Institute, where he heads the Cancer Immunosurveillance group. His lab focuses on understanding the interactions of host cells with commensal microbes or damaged cells that enable the immune system to mount a response against cancer. 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