Dr Hayley Whitaker

Hayley Whitaker is currently Lead Scientist of the Biomarker Initiative at Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Previously, Dr Whitaker was a Research Assistant/PhD student at Imperial College London.





Over the past few years her research focus has predominantly been on prostate cancer biomarkers for improving diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring disease. More recently she has developed the Biomarker Initiative working on other tissues, including pancreatic, ovarian, bladder and lung cancer. She has developed a robust and efficient biomarker pipeline to allow rapid, accurate validation of tissue, serum and urinary biomarkers.