Simon Richardson

Dr Richardson is an Assistant Research Professor studying B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (B-ALL), the commonest cancer in children and one that is challenging to treat in adults. Dr Richardson studied Medical Sciences and Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge before completing clinical training at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded the George Pickering Prize for best performance in medical finals. He undertook a PhD at the CRUK UCL Cancer Institute, where he characterised foetal human immune cell progenitors that are a likely cell-of-origin of childhood B-ALL. 

His current projects include modelling the disordered epigenetic and stem cell states underlying high-risk B-ALL, using cutting edge functional genomics screening and systems biology to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities, and developing novel therapeutic approaches, the first of which are progressing to clinical trial. Dr Richardson serves an honorary consultant haematologist on the Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immunotherapy service at Addenbrooke's hospital and teaches undergraduate medical sciences as a Fellow of St Catharine's College Cambridge.