Academic clinical fellowships in urology
The unit is one of the largest academic urology centres in the UK and has a wide portfolio of clinical trials and translational research studies.
About the programme
The academic urology team was established in Sheffield in 1999 following the appointment of the founding Chair, Freddie C Hamdy.
The team is now headed by Professor Jim Catto, who has generated over £50 million in peer-reviewed research income and published over 400 scientific reports since 1999. These have been cited by more than 70,000 other reports.
Research
The unit’s work is are mainly focused the management and basic research of urological malignancies, including prostate and bladder cancers. The unit is central to a multidisciplinary team of scientists and clinicians within the medical school and neighbouring NHS that are engaged in research of these tumours.
The research themes of the unit are varied and include clinical trials using profiling of human cancers, the translation of basic knowledge from the bench to the bedside and methods of surgery.
