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Professor Joe O'Sullivan

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Joe O'Sullivan

Professor Joe O'Sullivan

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Prostate cancer clinical trials focusing on:

  • The use of ionizing radiation in advanced disease
  • Molecular radiotherapy, in particular Radium-223 in prostate cancer metastatic to bone.
  • New therapeutics in CRPC

Contact info

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  • joe.osullivan@qub.ac.uk

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Bone-seeking radionuclides in prostate cancer
  • New therapeutics in CRPC
  • Advanced radiotherapy in prostate cancer
  • Genomic stratification in prostate cancer

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Trustee of Friends of the Cancer Centre
  • Belfast Live: Listen to touching song top doctor wrote for inspiring prostate cancer patient
  • Belfast Live: Belfast's fight against cancer is stronger than ever a decade on from new centre's grand opening
  • Cancer Research UK: A study adding radiotherapy and radionuclide therapy to hormone therapy to slow the spread of prostate cancer (ADRRAD)

Research students

PhD Title Exploring the role of naturally occurring prostate calcifications as an alternative to surgically implanted fiducial markers for image guided radiotherapy
Country United Kingdom
   
MD Title  SPORT TRIAL
Country  United Kingdom
   

 


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  • The Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research
  • Genito-Urinary and Prostate Research Group

  • Advanced Radiotherapy Group

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