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On 27 January 2003, Cyclacel Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company, announced the appointment of Professor Karol Sikora to its Oncology Scientific Advisory Board.

From 1999 to 2001, served as Vice President of Global Clinical Research (Oncology) at Pharmacia Corporation.

From 1997 to 1999 he was Chief of the World Health Organisation Cancer Programme based in Lyon, France.

Senior Consultant to AstraZeneca Oncology.

Special Adviser to HCA Healthcare, which is creating the largest UK cancer network outside the National Health Service in HCA's six major London private hospitals.

Visiting Professor of Cancer Medicine and honorary Consultant Oncologist at Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London. As Clinical Director for Cancer Services at Hammersmith, he established a major cancer research laboratory there funded by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He became Deputy Director (Clinical Research) of the ICRF.

Served on the United Kingdom Health Department's Expert Advisory Group on Cancer (the Calman-Hine Committee) and the Committee on Safety of Medicines.

Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., was appointed director of the Ludwig Institute in Cambridge, England.

A brilliant medical student, he studied medical science and biochemistry at Cambridge, England, where he obtained a double first! After clinical training, he became a house physician at The Middlesex Hospital and registrar in oncology at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He then became a research student at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University, California.

Internationally famous for his research into the behavior of cancer cells and the use of gene therapy as treatment.

During his childhood, he was interested in chemistry and would make homemade bombs.

His book 'Treatment of Cancer' is the standard British postgraduate textbook.

University of Buckingham medical school dean.

Father of three, and six grandchildren. His wife and mother of their children, Alison, was a nurse.