Professor Norman Maitland

The Cancer Research Unit, University of York

Investigating Prostate Cancer Resistance to Chemotherapy

Prof. Norman Maitland describes his research on prostate cancer development and treatment. Life has changed a lot over the past four decades, but for most cancer research centers, studies carried out on cell lines first obtained 40 years ago are commonplace. Things are different in Prof. Maitland's laboratory at the University of York, where the research is carried out on tumor samples obtained regularly in cooperation with local hospitals. Using live-cell imaging techniques the team has been able to study the effects of cancer treatment drugs on individual cancer-like cells in real time.



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Professor Norman Maitland

Biography

Professor Norman Maitland is Director of The Cancer Research Unit at the University of York. More

Professor Norman Maitland

The Cancer Research Unit, University of York

Professor Norman Maitland is Director of The Cancer Research Unit and also Chair of Molecular Biology at the University of York, UK. He gained a First Class Honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Glasgow and holds a PhD in Cancer Studies from the University of Birmingham. After research training as a Robertson Research Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (USA) and the University of Edinburgh (UK) Dr. Maitland was appointed to the first UK Lectureship in Molecular Pathology at the University of Bristol to apply molecular genetics for the analysis of primary clinical material from oral and paediatric embryonal tumours.