Treating teenage cancer

Fact file

• Name: Tim Eden

• Position: Teenage Cancer Trust professor of teenage and young adult cancer at the University of Manchester

• Biography: Tim Eden graduated from University College London in 1970 and worked in a variety of specialties. He started working in paediatric haematology and oncology in 1974 and became professor of paediatric oncology in Manchester (1994-2005) after holding a similar post at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London (1991-4). He is president of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology and sits on the external outreach advisory committee of St Jude's Paediatric Research Hospital in Tennessee, which reaches out to developing countries to improve survival rates