Group Leader:
Akira Orimo

I graduated from the Juntendo Medical School, Japan, where I received my M.D. in 1989 before joining the University of Tokyo, Japan, to undertake a PhD in Internal Clinical Medicine, which I completed in 1994.  I was an Assistant Professor from 1995-2000 and promoted to Associate Professor 2000-2002 within the Department of Biochemistry, at the Saitama Medical School (Masami Muramatsu laboratory) in Japan, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology (Robert A. Weinberg laboratory) at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, between 2000 and 2007. Since 2007, I have headed the Stromal-Tumour Interaction Group at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research. My research interests focus on understanding tumour-stroma interaction, the roles of stromal fibroblasts in enhancing human carcinoma progression and the development of a potential therapeutic approach targeting stromal fibroblasts.

Senior Scientific Officer
Kieran Mellody

Postdoctoral Fellow
Yasushi Kojima
Urszula Polanska
Masayuki Shimoda

PhD Student
Ahmet Acar