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Staff Profile

Dr Ugo Offor

NIHR Clinical Lecturer

  • Email: ugo.offor@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre
    Translational and Clinical Research Institute
    Level 6, Herschel Building
    Brewery Lane
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    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

I am a clinician scientist specialising in paediatric oncology with a particular interest in the applications of immuno-oncology to patient risk stratification and the development of novel targeted therapies. I currently work as an NIHR Clinical Lecturer within the Lymphoma research group at the Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre alongside providing clinical service as a paediatric oncology higher specialty resident at the Great North Children’s Hospital.


Qualifications

  • PhD (Immuno-oncology), 2025
  • MRCPCH, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2019
  • PGCert Clinical Research (Distinction), 2018
  • MSc Public Health and Health Services Research (Distinction), 2016
  • MBChB (Hons), 2012
  • BMed Sci (Hons), 2008

Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Paediatric Oncology GRID Resident, Great North Children’s Hospital, Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2021 - date)
  • RCPCH Paediatric Oncology CSAC Member - Trainee Representative (2022 - 2026)
  • Paediatric Oncology Trainees Group (POTG) - Co-chair (2023 - 2026)
  • Â鶹´«Ã½ Clinical Academic Training (NU-CAT) Committee Member - External Fellows Representative (2021-2024)

Awards and Honours

  • Â鶹´«Ã½ Doctoral College Thesis Prize (2026)
  • CCLG Experimental and Translation Science Award (2024)
  • BACR/AstraZeneca Student Award (2022).
  • Cancer Research UK Clinical PhD Fellowship (2021-2024).
  • Lymphoma Research Trust Grant (2021).
  • Northern Deanery Annual Research and Development Conference, Runner up best oral presentation (2019).
  • NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (2017 - 2020).
  • North of England Children's Cancer Research Fund (2016).
  • Â鶹´«Ã½ Institute of Health and Society prize for best Masters dissertation (2016).
  • Great North Paediatric Conference, Best Clinical Research Poster (2016).
  • Â鶹´«Ã½ Postgraduate Scholarship Award (2015).

Memberships

  • Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) - NHL Special Interest Group
  • International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)
  • British Association for Cancer Research (BACR)
  • European Haematology Association (EHA)


Research

Research Areas

My interest in immuno-oncology is focused on developing a comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanisms that drive the risk of high grade B cell lymphomas in children and young people, particularly EBV-driven lymphoproliferative disease in immune dysregulated children. This includes establishing the temporal trajectory of immune reconstitution in children following a solid organ transplant and its impact on viral oncogenesis and the composition of the tumour immune microenvironment.
Teaching
I provide clinical teaching to medical students and junior doctors within the paediatric oncology department at the Great North Children’s Hospital. I conduct MRCPCH clinical exam revision sessions within the Northern School of Paediatrics. I have collaborated with the Northern deanery to establish a monthly region-wide virtual journal club for paediatric trainees alongside a training curriculum for evidence-based clinical practice. This has been formally integrated into the regional teaching programme for paediatric specialty training in the North East.
Publications

  • Articles

    • Offor UT, Hollis P, Ognjanovic M, Parry G, Khushnood A, Long HM, Gennery AR, Bacon CM, Simmonds J, Reinhardt Z, Bomken S. . BMJ Open 2023, 13(10), e079582.
    • Offor UT, Bacon CM, Roberts J, Powell J, Brodlie M, Wood K, Windebank KP, Flett J, Hewitt T, Rand V, Hasan A, Parry G, Gennery AR, Reinhardt Z, Bomken S. . Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2021, 35(5), 24-32.
    • Prunotto G, Offor UT, Samarasinghe S, Wynn R, Vora A, Carpenter B, Gowdy C, McHugh K, Windebank KP, Rovelli AM, Slatter MA, Gennery AR, Veys P, Bacon CM, Bomken S, Lucchini G. . Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2020, 146(2), 447-450.
    • Zhou P, Blain AE, Newman AM, Zaka M, Chagaluka G, Adlar F, Offor UT, Broadbent C, Chaytor L, Whitehead A, Hall A, O'Connor H, Van Noorden S, Lampert I, Bailey S, Molyneux E, Bacon CM, Bomken S, Rand V. . Blood Advances 2019, 3(14), 2118-2127.
    • Offor UT, Akyea RK, Neequaye JE, Renner LA, Segbefia CI. . Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2018, 65(10), e27275.
    • Offor UT, Basta NO, James PW, McNally RJQ. . Cancer Epidemiology 2017, 50(Part A), 92-98.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Offor UT, Long HM, Filby A, Ognjanovic M, Simmonds J, Parry G, Khushnood A, Reinhardt Z, Gennery AR, Bacon CM, Bomken S. . In: 7th International Symposium on Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. 2022, New York, NY, USA: Leukemia Research.
    • Offor UT, Hinchliffe A, Ollett L, Bailey S. . In: 53rd Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology. 2021, Virtual: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.