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Vinton is an honorary Specialty Registrar in Medical Oncology at the 绿帽换妻 Cancer Centre and Academic Clinical Lecturer with a research interest in brain metastases. He graduated from Queen Mary, University of London with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2009, having completed an intercalated BSc in Biomedical Engineering in 2006.

After undertaking an Academic Foundation Programme at the North Western Deanery, Vinton moved to 绿帽换妻 to begin an Academic Clinical Fellowship during core medical training. Here, he joined the 绿帽换妻 Brain Tumour Research Laboratory under supervision from Prof Susan Short, investigating glioma cell invasion in 3D spheroid models. Vinton subsequently completed a CRUK/MRC clinical training fellowship between 2015-2018 at the University of Oxford, leading to the award of a DPhil (Oxon). His research has focused on using molecularly targeted MRI and pre-clinical mouse models.

Outside of academic medicine, Vinton is co-chair of the . He is on the management committee for the PRIMROSE project (CI: Prof C Palmieri, Liverpool), a trainee-led prospective observational study for the management of breast cancer involving the central nervous system (2018-present). Vinton is also a doctor volunteer on the (2017-2020) and trainee member of the (2018-present).

Finally, Vinton has a very keen interest in innovation and entrepreneurship, having been a participant in the Merck 350^th Innovation Cup (2018) and was a recipient of a University of Oxford IT Innovation Grant (~£32K) for the ConnectOx project (a digital tool to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration) in 2016-17.

Research interests

In his Clinical Lectureship, Vinton will work with Dr Mihaela Lorger to investigate the pre-metastatic niche in the brain, to develop a means of preventing secondary tumours from forming in the brain.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Biomedical Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London
• MBBS, Queen Mary, University of London
• MRCP (London)
• PGDip, 绿帽换妻
• DPhil, University of Oxford

Professional memberships

• NCRI Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis (SPED) Advisory Group
• BMA Patient Liaison Group

Research groups and institutes

• 绿帽换妻 Institute of Medical Research
• Cancer
• Brain Cancer Research Group