FIONA THISTLETHWAITE MB BChir PhD MRCP

Medical Oncology Consultant, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Fiona Thistlethwaite is a Medical Oncology Consultant within the ECMT (Experimental Cancer Medicine Team) at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor of Experimental Immunotherapy at The University of Manchester.
Fiona has been actively involved in clinical trial development for many years with a research focus on early phase clinical trials in immune-oncology, particularly adoptive cell therapies, combination immunotherapies and immune biomarkers. She is Clinical Lead for the Advanced Immune and Cell Therapy Team at The Christie and Director of iMATCH (Innovate Manchester Advanced Therapy Centre Hub) which one of three Innovate UK funded ATTC (Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres) forming a network with the aim of scaling up activity in the field of cell and gene therapy. Fiona is also the Medical Director of the NIHR Christie Clinical Research Facility and co-chairs the Manchester Immune-Oncology Network which is connecting-up scientists and clinicians across this exciting and dynamic field of medicine.