Dr Richard Burt details
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Location:
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
GMC/GDC number:
6156367
Professional background
Dr Richard Burt is an honorary consultant haematologist and senior clinical lecturer at UCLH and Imperial College London. He was awarded his medical degree at the University of Otago in New Zealand and his specialist medical training at the Royal Free Hospital, UCLH and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He undertook a CRUK PhD fellowship in Professor Adele Fielding’s laboratory at UCL, studying the role of the microenvironment in treatment resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
He was then awarded a post-doctoral Francis Crick fellowship and a CRUK Clinician Scientist fellowship to continue his research on the leukaemia microenvironment, focusing on the role of metabolic dependencies in the treatment resistant population. He was then awarded a clinical senior lecturer position at Imperial College in 2024 to establish his own laboratory there.
Both his clinical and research interests focus on acute leukaemia, including ALL and AML.
Specialties
Research interests
Dr Burt’s research focuses on the role of the bone marrow microenvironment in treatment resistance in acute leukaemia. He is especially interested in the metabolic perturbations and dependencies of resistant leukaemia cells.