School of Medicine

Overview

Tim Maughan is Professor of Cancer Studies at the School of Medicine in Cardiff University and an Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Velindre Hospital specialising in gastrointestinal cancers and lymphoma therapy.

Professor Maughan is the Clinical Director of the Clinical Research Collaboration Cymru Coordinating Centre. This major research collaboration funded by the Wales Assembly Government aims to develop an internationally competitive infrastructure for clinical research in health and social care and is the Welsh component of the UK Clinical Research Network.

He is also the Clinical Director of the Wales Cancer Trials Unit, an NCRI accredited and Cancer Research UK core funded unit running a portfolio of major multicentre cancer trials. This Unit grew out of the Wales Cancer Trials Network, a regional clinical trials organisation founded in 1998 by Tim Maughan and colleagues and which was a forerunner of the National Cancer Research Network. Professor Maughan chaired the NCRN operational steering group from 2005-7.

Professor Maughan’s research is in the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer. He is involved extensively at UK level in clinical trial design and execution in gastrointestinal cancers and is chair of the NCRI advanced colorectal cancer subgroup. He is the Chief Investigator of the MRC COIN trial, evaluating novel treatments in metastatic colorectal cancer. This trial will complete recruitment of over 2400 patients from centres across the UK in 2008. There is an extensive translational research programme running alongside the COIN trial, much of which is centred in Cardiff. He has previously worked in University College London, Southern Sudan and Cambridge.