Professor Pam Kearns is Chair of Clinical Paediatric Oncology at the University of Birmingham, where she is Director of the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences and Director of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU). As Director of CRCTU, she leads the research strategy for UK's largest cancer trials unit, delivering a trials portfolio of over 100 multi-centre & international cancer trials for a wide-range of cancers, occurring in all children, young people and adults.

She is also an Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at Birmingham Women and Children’s Hospital, Senior Clinical Advisor to Cancer Research UK and President of the European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-Europe).