PROFESSOR NAZNEEN RAHMAN
Professor Nazneen Rahman, professor of Childhood Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research

Professor Rahman is one of the UK's leading research scientists in the field of cancer genetics. At 38, she is one of the youngest fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and is highly regarded internationally for her work in Childhood Cancer and Breast Cancer research.

Her current roles are professor of childhood cancer genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research and team leader in the section of cancer genetics. She is also honorary consultant in cancer genetics at Royal Marsden Hospital Trust and honorary consultant in Clinical Genetics at St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust. She currently leads two research teams as well as undertaking clinical work and teaching commitments. She set up the Childhood Cancer Genetics Team in 2001 that now includes 9 people and aims to identify and characterise genes that predispose to childhood cancer and overgrowth. The team has already made a number of important discoveries that have had international impact. She also jointly leads the Breast Cancer Genetics Team that has now collected the largest collection of breast cancer families in the world and is undertaking further work to identify more genes.

Nazneen also undertakes clinical duties as a Consultant Geneticist and is one of nine members of the Corporate Management Group of The Institute of Cancer Research as well as being on the Medical Research Council's Training Fellowship Review Panel - she is the first Asian woman to sit on these committees.

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