Leila Shelley

Leila Shelley is Honorary Radiotherapy Physicist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge, funded by the WD Armstrong Trust. 

She is a member of the CRUK VoxTox Research Programme, focusing on linking radiation dose at the voxel level with toxicity. Her research combines Bioengineering and Medical Physics approaches to addressing the challenges of calculating delivered radiation dose to organs at risk, and establishing correlations with toxicity through biomechanical modelling and complex image analysis. The hypothesis of her research is that delivered dose is a better predictor of toxicity than planned dose, which in turn will be key to decision making in adaptive radiotherapy for reducing toxicity incidence.

Prior to returning to academia she completed her Medical Physics training and worked as a Radiotherapy Physicist in Edinburgh and Guildford, respectively. She is a member of the Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) Radiotherapy Special Interest Group (RT-SIG) and sits on the General Council of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering & Science (EAMBES). She is a STEM ambassador and active member of IPEM Outreach