Bone Metastases Group

The NCRI Bone Metastases Group is a multi-disciplinary community of researchers and consumers focused on clinical and translational issues relating to bone metastases research. The group works closely with clinical research networks, funders and national and international researchers to develop research to improve outcomes for bone metastases patients and identify areas of unmet need.

The group routinely identifies priorities in bone metastases research and dynamic working groups are established to address each priority.

NCRI Bone Metastases Group strategic priorities

  • Improve patient care in metastatic bone disease
  • Exploit the cellular interplay within the tumour microenvironment to prevent progression to bone metastasis
  • Develop new assessment tools and interventions that align with the current vision of early diagnosis and a minimally invasive approach that allows the patient to maintain a high quality of life.

NCRI Bone Metastases Group strategic priorities

How can I get involved?

Join the NCRI Bone Metastases Network

Group members

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Professor Claire Edwards

Chair of Bone Metastases Group & Working Group Chair

Claire is an Associate Professor of Bone Oncology at the University of Oxford. She has over twent ...

Professor Claire Edwards

Chair of Bone Metastases Group & Working Group Chair

Claire is an Associate Professor of Bone Oncology at the University of Oxford. She has over twenty-five years of experience working in the field of cancer and bone, with a focus on cancer-induced bone disease and the tumour-bone microenvironment. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Iain T. Boyle Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society, and is the past president of the Cancer and Bone Society. Specific interests include the role of adiposity and metabolism in the pathogenesis of prostate cancer bone metastases and multiple myeloma.

Mr Jonathan Stevenson

Deputy Chair of Bone Metastases Group & Working Group Chair

Jonathan specialises in paediatric and adult bone and soft-tissue sarcomas, limb-salvage and comp ...

Mr Jonathan Stevenson

Deputy Chair of Bone Metastases Group & Working Group Chair

Jonathan specialises in paediatric and adult bone and soft-tissue sarcomas, limb-salvage and complex arthroplasty, particularly prosthetic joint infection. He is a senior honorary clinical lecturer in orthopaedics at Aston University. Jonathan is principal investigator on studies into the osseointegration of endoprosthetic replacements and soft-tissue sarcomas and clinical lead for sarcoma genomics, metastatic bone disease and the research tissue bank at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. He is a trustee for the Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) leading on awareness and early diagnosis.

Professor Richard Hall

Working Group Chair

Professor Richard Hall resides in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds ...

Professor Richard Hall

Working Group Chair

Professor Richard Hall resides in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds where he delivers research in the areas of medical engineering focused on the spine and hip particularly with a focus on pre-clinical in vitro assessments including wear simulation. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Leeds and was awarded a PhD from the University of Lancaster. He has had research funding from the EU (LifeLongJoints, SpineFX, Biotrib and Nu-Spine) as well as the UKRI and NIH in the USA

Professor Ingunn Holen

Working Group Deputy Chair

Professor Ingunn Holen studied Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Oslo, Norway, and wa ...

Professor Ingunn Holen

Working Group Deputy Chair

Professor Ingunn Holen studied Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Oslo, Norway, and was awarded a PhD for work on the role of autophagy in cancer in 1995. Ingunn then joined the University of Sheffield as a post-doctoral research associate working on the mechanism of action of bisphosphonates. Establishing a lab research program in breast cancer bone metastasis, Ingunn gained a lectureship in 2001 and was appointed as Professor of Bone Oncology in 2014.

Dr Enrico Dall'Ara

Working Group Deputy Chair

Dr Enrico Dall’Ara holds a PhD in Biomechanics from the Vienna University of Technology and ...

Dr Enrico Dall'Ara

Working Group Deputy Chair

Dr Enrico Dall’Ara holds a PhD in Biomechanics from the Vienna University of Technology and a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna, and joined the University of Sheffield in 2013 as Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2015, Enrico was appointed as Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Multiscale Imaging at the Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield. Enrico has been Senior Lecturer since 2019 and part of the Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine since 2013.

Professor Janet Brown

Working Group Deputy Chair

Professor Janet Brown was appointed to a Chair in Translational Medical Oncology at the Universit ...

Professor Janet Brown

Working Group Deputy Chair

Professor Janet Brown was appointed to a Chair in Translational Medical Oncology at the University of Sheffield, and as Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She also holds a Visiting Professorship in Medical Oncology at the University of Leeds. After graduating in medicine from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and training in oncology in Newcastle, Christie Hospital Manchester and Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield, she obtained her MD research degree from University of Sheffield and was appointed Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at the University of Leeds and Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist.

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