Professor Sam Behjati

Sam Behjati is an academic paediatric oncologist who combines clinical work with research on childhood cancer. In addition to his Clinical Professorship in Paediatric Oncology, he is Group Leader / Wellcome Senior Research Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at Addenbrooke’s. His research focuses on identifying the origins of childhood cancer, using quantitative genomic methods, studying a wide range of diseases. In his clinical work he spearheads the roll out of genome sequencing for children with cancer, which has the potential to transform clinical practice.Originally from Germany, he read medicine at Oxford, followed by academic clinical training in London and Cambridge. He joined Corpus as a Non-Stipendiary Early-Career Research Fellow in 2016 and offers supervisions in cancer biology.