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Medical Director, Principal Investigator

SCD of Cancer and Blood Research, Auckland City Hospital and Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator
Peter is a scholarship holder and first class honours graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia in 1994. He completed his Medical Oncology training at Auckland Hospital in 2003 and then worked as a locum consultant. Peter embarked a fellowship in 2004 at the Drug Development Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital in London, in the conduct of many Phase I studies including olaparib, receiving ASCO Merit Awards. He undertook a research doctorate at the Institute of Cancer Research, the CRUK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics in laboratory translational research in epigenetic targeting drugs and biomarker validation. In 2008, he moved to the Royal Marsden Prostate Cancer Trials Unit. He has been an investigator in over 60 Phase 1 trials.
Peter is a member of the national and Australasian trials groups. He is/was on research and scientific review committees, grants committees and journal review. He has presented in numerous international meetings and published widely in major peer- reviewed medical journals. He has successfully recruited into many trials open in Auckland for the last 10 years.

Principal Investigator


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