Mr Francis Thomas

Department of Oncology
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX
UK

Office:

Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2000
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547

email: francisthomask@hotmail.com

Bibliography

I joined the University of Sheffield in 2009 as a clinical lecturer and have been closely involved in the research activities linked to academic urology unit. Before joining the unit I was a research fellow in university of Bristol and completed an MD degree with UOB studying dietary inventions in prostate cancer.

I am currently working on tumour stroma interactions in bladder cancer.

Research Interests

My research interests are studying `tumour and stroma interaction in bladder cancer´.

Teaching Interests

I organise and teach Urology to phase 3b medical students.

Current Projects

Tumour stroma interaction on bladder cancer using normal human urotheluim and EJ 124 bladder cancer cells.

Key Publications

1) Thomas F, Patel S, Holly JM, Persad R, Bahl A, Perks CM, `Dihydrotestosterone sensitises LNCaP cells to death induced by epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) or an IGF-i receptor inhibitor.´ Prostate, 2009, Feb 1; 69(2):219-24.

2) Thomas F, Holly JM, Persad R, Bahl A, Perks CM
Fibronectin confers survival against chemotherapeutic agents but not against radiotherapy in DU145 prostate cancer cells: involvement of the insulin like growth factor-1 receptor. Prostate. 2010 Jun 1;70(8):856-65