"Dr Alicia Okines is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, and Honorary Faculty at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. Dr Okines studied Pharmacology and then Medicine at the University of Sheffield.

During her specialist medical oncology training at the Royal Marsden Hospital, she completed an MD(Res) investigating VEGF and EGFR targeted therapies at the Institute of Cancer Research. Her research interests principally lie in clinical trials and translational research in metastatic breast cancer including brain disease. She also has a special interest in lobular breast cancer."