Dr Paul Shaw

Biography

Dr Shaw trained at Liverpool University Medical School and during this time received Medical Research Council funding to complete an intercalated Physiology degree. His general medical training in Bristol (Frenchay Hospital) lead him to work at the Royal Marsden Hospital and his interest in oncology.

He is dual trained in Clinical Oncology and Palliative Medicine (Oxford) with over 20 years experience of NHS care. His work based at Velindre Cancer Centre includes both the radical and palliative managements of patients with lung, oesophago-gastric and anal cancers. He is active in recruitment to clinical trials including local lead investigator roles for national lung (Matrix), anal cancer (Plato) and commercial trials. He is also the lead Clinical Oncologist for Early Phase Drug Radiation studies at Velindre Cancer Centre and is a Co-investigator for the developing UK Non-Small Cell Lung cancer study to test DNA damage and repair pathway inhibitors with radiation.

Dr Shaw combines full time NHS practice with academic responsibilities within the School of Bioscience, where he is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. He completed PhD studies funded by the Cancer Research UK Bobby Moore Clinical Research Fellowship in Prof Alan Clarke’s laboratory (PhD awarded 2010). Since then he has Co-Supervised 3 PhD students at Cardiff University and has secured further funding to develop a lung cancer model with Oxford University to test drugs and radiotherapy combinations (PhD 2018-2021, Cancer Research Wales).

His complimentary NHS/Academic roles include being Co-chair of the Wales Cancer Partnership Lung Multi-Disciplinary Research Group, which aims to promote research collaborations across Wales. He is also a member of the Radiation Research Group at Velindre Cancer Centre and senior committee representative of the Cardiff Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre and member of CTrad science work stream.

Outside of work Dr Shaw likes to pursue an active lifestyle and is a very keen cyclist and loves nothing better than battling his way up some of the beautiful Welsh valleys on two wheels. He is happily married and loves living in Wales.

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