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Professor Richard Kaplan is a medical oncologist and Senior Clinical Scientist in the Cancer Group at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit and Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology at University College London. He is an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Population Health Sciences at UCL, and Honorary Consultant in Oncology at University College London Hospital.

Before coming to the UK in 2004 as Professor of Oncology in the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine and Associate Director of the then new National Cancer Research Network (NCRN), Prof. Kaplan was Chief of the Clinical Investigations Branch at the National Cancer Institute in the US, where he was Program Director for the NCI’s national program of Clinical Trials Cooperative Groups. He was also responsible for scientific coordination of NCI’s portfolio of funded or sponsored treatment trials in gastrointestinal, urological and brain malignancies.

He has served on grant and regulatory advisory committees and panels in the US, Canada and Europe. One of his current research emphases has been the development of novel and efficient clinical trial designs for oncology, especially in the area of stratified medicine.