Catharine West

Weiss Medallist 2016

Catharine West is a biologist who obtained a PhD in radiobiology in 1983 at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton. During this time she developed an interest in measuring radiosensitivity and hypoxia. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester Cancer Center in upstate New York, she moved to the Paterson Institute/Christie Hospital in 1986. In 2002, she moved to the University of Manchester where she became Professor of Radiation Biology in 2007. She has been a member/officer of a number of UK Radiation Biology committees and UK Clinical Study Groups. She is currently an associate editor for Radiation Research, on the editorial board for Clinical Oncology, on the UK Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment, on the Prostate Cancer UK Research Advisory Committee, Chair of the LH Gray Memorial Trust, an honorary member of the Royal College of Radiologists and an honorary fellow of the British Institute of Radiology. Her work focuses on measuring radiobiologically relevant phenotypes in cancer patients with a particular interest in translational research linked to trials involving radiotherapy. She was instrumental in setting up the international Radiogenomics Consortium. Catharine has three children and worked part-time for a number of years. At the time of the award of the Weiss medal she has published 247 papers and has an h-index of 53.

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