Professor Bass Hassan
Professor Bass Hassan
- T.O. Ogunlesi Senior Research Fellow
- Professor of Medical Oncology
Profile
I joined Lincoln College and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in 2009. Although born in Scotland, I was brought up in the Middle East and Maidenhead, Berkshire. I trained in clinical medicine in Oxford (Merton) in the 1980's, and completed a DPhil (Brasenose, Wellcome Fellow) at the Sir William Dunn School in 1994 in Peter Cook's laboratory. After a period in Cambridge and Southampton training in Medical Oncology, I returned to work on genes that regulate embryonic development with Chris Graham in the Department of Zoology (1987, Cancer Research UK Senior Clinical Research Fellow). I was appointed Professor of Oncology in Bristol in 2003 before joining the CRUK Medical Oncology Unit at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in 2007.
- Research
My research interests concern genes and proteins that regulate both embryonic and tumour growth. I split my time between my science laboratory at the Dunn School and treating patients with rare cancers of bone and soft tissue (sarcoma). I am deeply committed to research that may benefit patients, and am currently developing novel therapeutic proteins and clinical trials with Cancer Research Technology and European Bone Sarcoma Centres, respectively.