Mrs Tessa Fulton-Lieuw

Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Trials Team Leader (InHANSE)

Contact details

Address
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education (InHANSE)
Robert Aitken Building, 2nd Floor
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT

Tessa Fulton-Lieuw is Trials Team Leader for the Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education (InHANSE) within the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences. Her field of work is head and neck cancer.

Qualifications

  • MSc in Childhood Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2006
  • B.A. with Honors in Political Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 2005

Biography

Tessa obtained her MSc at the University of Edinburgh in 2006 where her dissertation focused on children’s perceptions of quality family time. After finishing her MSc she returned home to California and worked as a Children’s Service Specialist for a non-profit organisation that assisted homeless families in Los Angeles. She then shifted her career working for the Research Division of a non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote quality reproductive health care for all. She was the Research Administrator and later took on the additional role of Institutional Review Board (IRB) Coordinator. When she moved to England in 2011 she worked as a Clinical Trial Coordinator at The University of Warwick. Tessa started working at The University of Birmingham in October 2017. She currently works with a team of clinicians, nurses, translational research scientists, and clinical trialists within the field of head and neck cancer.

Research

Research Group - InHANSE

Publications

Mehanna H, Robinson M, Hartley A, Kong A, Foran B, Fulton-Lieuw T, et al. (2018) Radiotherapy plus cisplatin or cetuximab in low-risk human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal cancer (De-ESCALaTE HPV):  an open-label randomised controlled phase 3 trial.  The Lancet.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32752-1