Ruth Plummer

Elizabeth Ruth Plummer is a Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine at Newcastle University and an oncologist specialising in treating patients with melanoma. Based in Newcastle, she directs the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre, set up by the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation to run early-stage clinical trials.v Plummer and the Newcastle team won a 2010 Translational Cancer Research Prize from Cancer Research UK for work using rucaparib to treat ovarian cancer. Plummer was elected as a fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences in 2018. Education and career Plummer studied pre-clinical medicine at the University of Cambridge and completed a PhD and her clinical studies at the University of Oxford. She then moved back to Newcastle, working at the Northern Institute for Cancer Research at Newcastle University. She lists her research interests as DNA repair and the early trials of new drugs. Plummer is Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine at the Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University and an honorary consultant medical oncologist in Newcastle Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She is Director of the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre within the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, w a dedicated clinical trials unit within the regional cancer centre. . Plummer also leads the Newcastle Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre and the CRUK Newcastle Cancer Centre.