Bulletin Number Two 1985

New Professors of the Medical Faculty The Chines eUniversit yBulleti n has ， in previous issues ， introduced readers to fourteen of the Professors/Department Heads of the Faculty of Medicine ， as well as their aspirations and plans for the respective Departments. We are introducing in the present issue two more Professors of the Faculty, who took up their post this academic year. They have also written on the tasks they see lying ahead of them and their Departments. The ‘Profiles'of the fourteen Professors/ Department Heads and their articles on their Tasks Ahead'may be found in the following issues of the Chines eUniversit yBulletin : (1) Supplement 2 ， which is a special issue on the ‘Opening of Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building'— Professors C.N. Chen (Psychiatry), S.P.B, Donnan (Community Medicine )， J.E. Gardiner (Pharmacology), W.C. Hamann (Physiology) and D.J. Riches (Anatomy); (2) Number Two, 1982 一 Professors D.P. Davies (Paediatrics) and A.K.C. Li (Surgery); (3) Number Three ， 1983 — Professors A.M.Z. Chang (Obstetrics and Gynaecology), G.L. French (Microbiology), J.C.K. Lee (Morbid Anatomy), P.C. Leung (Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery )， J. Vallance- Owen (Medicine), and J.A. Thornton (Anaesthesia), and Dr. R. Swaminathan (Reader in Chemical Pathology). 一 Editor Profiles Professor W.M.C . Martin Professor of Clinical Oncology Professor W.M . Craig Martin studied Mathematics and Medicine a t Clare College, Cambridge and then Queen's University, Belfast, graduating MB BChir i n 1970. After internship h e worked i n various medical specialities an d became a Member o f th e Royal College o f Physicians i n 1973. H e took u p Radiotherapy and Oncology under Professor Bill Duncan in Edinburgh an d then worked a t th e Middlesex Hospital an d Mount Vernon Hospital, London, where h e took hi s DMRT and became a Fellow o f the Faculty o f Radiologists o f the Royal College o f Surgeons o f Ireland an d a Fellow o f th e Royal College o f Radiologists, between 197 6 an d 78 . A t Mount Vernon, h e became very interested i n th e pioneering work o n radiosensitizers being done b y Dr. Stan Dische and was involved i n several clinical trials using these drugs i n lung cancer and carcinoma of the cervix. I n 1978 ， he had an opportunity to work at th e Gray Laboratory o f th e Cancer Research Campaign as a Medical Research Council Fellow i n Radiobiology an d stayed there until 1981 . Hi s research was on two laboratory projects, one studying some o f the factors which cause tumours t o become resistant t o chemotherapy, and th e other looking a t the remarkable potentiation o f certain cytotoxic drugs b y otherwise inactive sensitizers. He proceeded PhD i n 1981 ， and i n th e same year was appointed Consultant i n Radiotherapy and Oncology a t Belvoir Park Hospital, Belfast. During his time i n Belfast, h e had a wide clinical experience an d continued hi s research, no t only o n sensitizers bu t also i n the use of altered fractionation schemes i n radiotherapy t o improve results in head and neck cancer. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 7