Team Overview
Led by Professor Gert Attard, the Treatment Resistance Group has its home at the UCL Cancer Institute, London. The group consist of thirty lab members including a Principal Research Fellow, a Lab Manager and multiple Senior Research Fellows, Clinical Research Fellows, PhD students, Research Technicians and Assistants.
Group Leader
Professor Gerhardt Attard
Prof Attard is a John Black Charitable Foundation Endowed Chair in Urological Cancer Research at University College London.
He holds an advanced Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist award and is Team Leader of the Treatment Resistance Group at the UCL Cancer Institute. In September 2024, he was appointed Director of the Cancer Institute.
He graduated with a degree in Medicine from the University of Malta in June 1999 and obtained a PhD in Medicine from the University of London (ICR) in 2010.
His main research interest is dissecting treatment resistance, currently with a focus on plasma DNA analysis, in order to inform on the development of novel therapeutics and biomarkers for castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).
He is an experienced clinical trialist in CRPC and a co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including several important papers on advanced prostate cancer.
Prof Attard’s many awards over the years include the ASCO Foundation Annual Merit Award in 2007, Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award in 2008, the AACR-GlaxoSmithKline Outstanding Clinical Scholar Award in 2009, the Medical Research Society/Academy of Medical Sciences Sue McCarthy Prize in 2010 and the McElwain award in 2010.
He received the Cancer Research UK Future Leader Award in 2017.
Prof Attard sits on a number of advisory boards and is the GU associate editor of Annals of Oncology.
