Dr De La Pena is a consultant medical oncologist who specialises in treating breast cancer.

MD, PhD, FRCP

Training and education

PHD at the University College London
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge
Oncology training at Oxford University Hospitals

Experience

Dr De La Pena is a consultant medical oncologist who specialises in treating breast cancer. He is also a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians and CRUK Ambassador.

Awards and prizes

At medical school, Dr De La Pena graduated first place in his class, with the highest score and maximum double honorary mention: summa cum laude and magna cum laude.
First ever chief registrar of the Royal College of Physicians - 2018 to 19
Winner of the European Young Scientist Award 2010 on behalf of the European Association for Cancer Research for outstanding contribution in the field of progress in vaccination against cancer - St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge
Winner of the Young Scientist Award on behalf of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI) for outstanding contributions to cancer immunotherapy - 2004

Research

MHC class I-associated phosphopeptides are the targets of memory-like immunity in leukemia.Cobbold M, De La Peña H, Norris A, Polefrone JM, Qian J Williams ME, Hunt DF, Engelhard VH.Science Translational Medicine. 2013 Sep 18;5(203). PMID: 24048523
Highly purified Th17 cells from BDC2.5NOD mice convert into Th1-like cells in NOD/SCID recipient mice.Bending D, De La Peña H, Veldhoen M, Phillips JM, Uyttenhove C, Stockinger B, Cooke A.J Clin Invest. 2009 Mar;119(3):565-72. PMID: 19188681
Artificial exosomes as tools for basic and clinical immunology.De La Peña H, Madrigal JA, Rusakiewicz S, Bencsik M, Cave GW, Selman A, Rees RC, Travers PJ, Dodi IA.J Immunol Methods. 2009 May 31;344(2):121-32. PMID: 19345222

Contact

You can contact Dr De La Peña via his secretary Donna Donelan - call 023 8120 3463 or send an email.