Independent Scientific Advisory Group
The TRANSFORM Independent Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) provides overarching governance for the TRANSFORM study by a committee of independent, internationally recognised subject matter experts across the range of research areas under investigation in TRANSFORM.
The purpose of the ISAG is to review the progress of TRANSFORM, provide us with expert advice and to make recommendations regarding future TRANSFORM funding to our Board of Trustees.
Recommendations will be in line with the goal of the charity’s research strategy to generate the definitive evidence to underpin an effective and optimal national screening programme for prostate cancer that will save lives.
ISAG members are required to adhere to the Terms of Reference for this advisory group.
The TRANSFORM Independent Scientific Advisory Group members
ISAG Chair
Professor Sir John Burn - Professor of Clinical Genetics
Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, UK
and Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Northern Genetics Service.
PPI members
Mrs Ann Graham - Retired nurse (Oncology)
Mr Junior Hemans - Libran Management Consultancy and Non Executive Director of Walsall Healthcare NHS
Research and Clinical members
Dr Paul Pinsky - Chief Program Officer: Early Detection - Division of Cancer Prevention
National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Professor Monique Roobol - Professor of Decision Making in Urology
Department of Urology at Erasmus University Medical Centre, Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Professor Matthew Cooperberg - Professor of Urology; Epidemiology & Biostatistics
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr Charles Ryan - Attending Physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
and Medical Director of The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
Dr Jonas Wallström - Radiologist
Department of Urology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Professor Ivo Schoots - Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of Abdominal Imaging
Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Simpa S. Salami - Associate Professor, Urology
Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Katie Robb - Professor of Behavioural Science and Health
School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK
Professor Alistair McGuire - Professor of Health Economics
Chair of LSE Health, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics, UK
Professor Philip Crosbie - Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Consultant
Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Isabel Syndikus Consultant in Clinical Oncology
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, UK
Professor Alan McNeill Consultant Urological Surgeon
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, and Spire Murrayfield, UK
