BNOS Committees

Applications to join a committee are opened periodically to BNOS members. If you are interested in joining one of the committees, please contact administrator@bnos.org.uk. If the committee is recruiting, you will then be asked to submit an expression of interest following which you may be invited to attend a short virtual interview with the committee chair.

Each committee term is for two years, which is renewable for a further two-year term.

Academic Committee

The Academic Committee aims to promote and foster multidisciplinary brain tumour research and education both within the UK and with the international community.

In 2024 for the first time, we brought together researchers from preclinical and clinical backgrounds through a series of translational research webinars on current hot topics in the field, designed to progress research areas that are important to the community – these include drug development, model systems, immunotherapy and more. 

We are also aligning with specialist societies to deliver joint educational sessions, leveraging expertise in key areas that support the clinical brain tumour pathway such as pathology and radiology.

We wish to support junior members with specialist research training days around grants and funding, a mentoring scheme and for our allied health care professionals a dedicated clinical study day.

Any members of the society should feel free to contact us via administrator@bnos.org.uk if they have ideas and thoughts they wish to share about what the Committee can do to support these aims.

Current members:
Rasheed Zakaria, Co-Chair
Phoebe McCrorie, Co-Chair
Aimee Goel
Alina Pandele
Helen Bulbeck
Mareike Thompson
Rhona Watson
Shivani Soni
Simon Deacon
Stephen Price

Clinical Committee

The Clinical Committee was established in 2024 in recognition of the rapidly developing clinical environment in neuro-oncology.

The Committee’s role is to focus on emerging clinical issues including new diagnosis, treatment and management approaches for brain tumour patients. Committee members support BNOS’s role as a stakeholder in various settings and help inform the clinical, academic and patient community about developments by:

  • Horizon scanning to help make sure BNOS is aware of new treatments/biomarkers etc. in different settings
  • Helping/contributing when we are asked to be stakeholder in e.g. NICE and technology assessments
  • Ensuring BNOS has a voice in any new national/international clinical and/or funding initiatives (e.g. GTABs, research MDT, NIHR programmes, new technology calls etc.)
  • Being an interface with the BNOS Patient Centred Care Committee
  • Helping to shape clinical aspects of other BNOS activities, including education and congress

Current members
Matt Williams, Chair
Andrew Brodbelt
Helen Benghiat
Jennifer Bristow
Paul Brennan
Rhona Watson
Sarah Kingdon
Shaveta Mehta
Soma Sengupta
Stuart Smith
Susan Short
Tom Flannery
Vinton Cheng

Updated: September 2025