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Paul Lorigan is a Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust. He leads a research based clinical practice, specialising in developing new treatments for malignant melanoma. He is Chair of Melanoma Focus (www.melanomafocus.org), the UK national charity dedicated to research, treatment, education and information for clinical teams treating melanoma patients, for patients and their families. He also chairs the EORTC Melanoma Group Advanced Disease Subgroup and previously he chaired the UK NCRI Melanoma Clinical Studies Group from 2006 to 2012. The Manchester group are international leaders in research and treatment of melanoma, with expertise in signalling pathways (Professor Richard Marais) circulating tumour cells (Professor Caroline Dive), immunotherapy and adoptive cell therapy (Professor Robert Hawkins, Dr Santiago Zelenay), and pre-clinical melanoma models (Dr Claudia Wellbrock, Dr Adam Hurlstone). Manchester is the only centre in the UK able to deliver Adoptive Cell Therapy for melanoma, and only one of three in Europe. Paul Lorigan leads the clinical team that works closely with these groups, developing a model of pesonalised medicine in melanoma.