Professor Adel Samson, co-lead of Theme 3, will give his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on Thursday 19th September 2024 in the Clinical Services Building at St. James University Hospital. Entitled ‘Harnessing the immune system; oncolytic viruses for the treatment of cancer’, the lecture will deliver a fascinating outline of Professor Samson’s work.

Professor Samson is a CRUK Clinician Scientist and a consultant Medical Oncologist with a specialist interest in liver cancer. He leads a pipeline of early-phase oncolytic virus clinical trials and the Translational Cancer Immunotherapy Laboratory Group, which investigates the mechanisms of immunotherapy in the treatment of cancer.