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Professor Anne Kiltie

Professor Anne Kiltie
Professor Anne Kiltie
Professor Anne Kiltie

MA DM DSc MRCP(UK) FRCR

Friends of ANCHOR Clinical Chair in Oncology

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Email Address
anne.kiltie@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address

Room 5.053

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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Biography

I qualified in medicine from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and trained in Clinical Oncology at the Christie Hospital, Manchester, and Cookridge Hospital, Leeds. I undertook my DM at the Paterson Institute, University of Manchester and was a Clinical Research Fellow at ICRF Clare Hall before taking up a Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist appointment at the University of Leeds in 2001. I moved to the Department of Oncology, University of Oxford in 2009, and obtained my DSc and personal chair in 2016.

I took up my appointment as Friends of ANCHOR Clinical Chair of Oncology at the University of Aberdeen in June 2021.

My research focusses on exploiting dietary fibre manipulation and its effects on the gut microbiome as an ‘endogenous’ means of radiosensitising tumours without increasing radiation toxicity to the surrounding normal tissues including the intestines.

 

Qualifications

  • DSc Medical Sciences 
    2016 - University of Oxford 
  • DM Medical Sciences 
    1999 - University of Oxford 
  • BM BCh Medicine 
    1988 - University of Oxford 
  • BA Medical Sciences 
    1985 - University of Cambridge 
  • MRCP(UK) General Medicine 
    1992 - Royal College of Physicians of England 
  • FRCR Clinical Oncology 
    1995 - Royal College of Radiologists 
  • MA Medicine 
    1989 - University of Cambridge 
  • MA Medicine 
    1999 - University of Oxford 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Jul 2021 - present      Member of the Rowett Institute Ethics Panel

Oct 2021 - present     Member of Friends of ANCHOR Research Advisory Group

External Memberships

Jun 2023 - present    Member of RAIDER TrialTranslational Working Group 

Jan 2022 - present    Member of Scientific Review Group BCAN Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Award 2022

Jan 2022 - present    Member of Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum Committee

Oct 2018 - present     Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) Bladder Cancer Network Management Committee

Dec 2017 - present    Member of Editorial Board of European Urology Oncology

Oct 2016 - present     Associate Editor of Bladder Cancer

2014 - present            Grant reviewer for Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC)

Sept 2012 - present   British Uro-oncology Group Executive Committee Trustee

Jan 2012 - present     Royal College of Radiologists representative on Advisory Appointments Committees

Research

Research Overview

Tumours in the pelvis, including bladder, prostate and colorectal cancer and gynaecological cancers may be treated by surgical removal or organ-preserving radiotherapy-based treatments. Current organ-preservation standard of care for most tumour sites includes addition of radiosensitising chemotherapy to improve tumour control. However, this often comes at the expense of increased radiotherapy-induced side effects to the surrounding normal tissues, including the intestines. Furthermore, such combined treatments are often not tolerated by elderly patients. With the proportion of over 75-year olds set to double by 2050, there is an urgent need to find alternative approaches to radiosensitisation.

Having worked on histone deacetylase inhibitors, which we showed to be effective tumour radiosensitisers without additional acute and late small intestinal toxicity in in vivo models, we are now working to exploit dietary fibre manipulation and the gut microbiome as an ‘endogenous’ means of radiosensitising tumours without increasing radiation toxicity to the surrounding normal tissues including the intestines.

Research Areas

Applied Health Sciences

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Biomedical Sciences

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Nutrition and Health

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Research Specialisms

  • Medicine
  • Food Science
  • Bacteriology
  • Oncology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Supervision

Supervisees

  • MS MEREL VAN DEN HAAK
  • MR ADAM POTTER
  • MR DANIEL SESCU
  • MISS ANAM WAJID
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

ME3013 MBChB SSC2: supervisor

BM4501 BSc Honours project: supervisor

RN5504 Nutrition and Health through the Life Stages: lecture

RN5505 Clinical Nutrition: lecture and seminar

RN5503 Clinical Nutrition for Disease Prevention: lecture

Non-course Teaching Responsibilities

I am a Regent for the MB ChB Regent Scheme.

Publications

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  • SPRTN protease-cleaved MRE11 decreases DNA repair and radiosensitises cancer cells

    Na, J., Newman, J. A., Then, C. K., Syed, J., Vendrell, I., Torrecilla, I., Ellermann, S., Ramadan, K., Fischer, R., Kiltie, A. E.
    Cell Death and Disease, vol. 12, no. 2, 165
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Greater utility of molecular subtype rather than epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers for prognosis in high-risk non-muscle-invasive (HGT1) bladder cancer

    Ottley, E. C., Pell, R., Brazier, B., Hollidge, J., Kartsonaki, C., Browning, L., O'Neill, E., Kiltie, A. E.
    Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 238-251
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Association of Bacteroides acidifaciens relative abundance with high-fibre diet-associated radiosensitisation

    Then, C. K., Paillas, S., Wang, X., Hampson, A., Kiltie, A. E.
    BMC Biology, vol. 18, 102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Romidepsin Spares Normal Tissues While Acting as an Effective Radiosensitizer in Bladder Tumors in Vivo

    Paillas, S., Then, C. K., Kilgas, S., Ruan, J. L., Thompson, J., Elliott, A., Smart, S., Kiltie, A. E.
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 212-221
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • EAU-ESMO Consensus Statements on the Management of Advanced and Variant Bladder Cancer-An International Collaborative Multistakeholder Effort: Under the Auspices of the EAU-ESMO Guidelines Committees

    Witjes, J. A., Babjuk, M., Bellmunt, J., Bruins, H. M., De Reijke, T. M., De Santis, M., Gillessen, S., James, N., Maclennan, S., Palou, J., Powles, T., Ribal, M. J., Shariat, S. F., Der Kwast, T. V., Xylinas, E., Agarwal, N., Arends, T., Bamias, A., Birtle, A., Black, P. C., Bochner, B. H., Bolla, M., Boormans, J. L., Bossi, A., Briganti, A., Brummelhuis, I., Burger, M., Castellano, D., Cathomas, R., Chiti, A., Choudhury, A., Compérat, E., Crabb, S., Culine, S., De Bari, B., De Blok, W., J L De Visschere, P., Decaestecker, K., Dimitropoulos, K., Dominguez-Escrig, J. L., Fanti, S., Fonteyne, V., Frydenberg, M., Futterer, J. J., Gakis, G., Geavlete, B., Gontero, P., Grubmüller, B., Hafeez, S., Hansel, D. E., Hartmann, A., Hayne, D., Henry, A. M., Hernandez, V., Herr, H., Herrmann, K., Hoskin, P., Huguet, J., Jereczek-Fossa, B. A., Jones, R., Kamat, A. M., Khoo, V., Kiltie, A. E., Krege, S., Ladoire, S., Lara, P. C., Leliveld, A., Linares-Espinós, E., Løgager, V., Lorch, A., Loriot, Y., Meijer, R., Mir, M. C., Moschini, M., Mostafid, H., Müller, A., Müller, C. R., N'Dow, J., Necchi, A., Neuzillet, Y., Oddens, J. R., Oldenburg, J., Osanto, S., J G Oyen, W., Pacheco-Figueiredo, L., Pappot, H., Patel, M. I., Pieters, B. R., Plass, K., Remzi, M., Retz, M., Richenberg, J., Rink, M., Roghmann, F., Rosenberg, J. E., Rouprêt, M., Rouvière, O., Salembier, C., Salminen, A., Sargos, P., Sengupta, S., Sherif, A., Smeenk, R. J., Smits, A., Stenzl, A., Thalmann, G. N., Tombal, B., Turkbey, B., Lauridsen, S. V., Valdagni, R., Der Heijden, A. G. V., Van Poppel, H., Vartolomei, M. D., Veskimäe, E., Vilaseca, A., Rivera, F. A. V., Wiegel, T., Wiklund, P., Williams, A., Zigeuner, R., Horwich, A., Willemse, P. M.
    European Urology, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 223-250
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The p97–Ataxin 3 complex regulates homeostasis of the DNA damage response E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF8

    Singh, A. N., Oehler, J., Torrecilla, I., Kilgas, S., Li, S., Vaz, B., Guérillon, C., Fielden, J., Hernandez-Carralero, E., Cabrera, E., Tullis, I. D., Meerang, M., Barber, P. R., Freire, R., Parsons, J., Vojnovic, B., Kiltie, A. E., Mailand, N., Ramadan, K.
    EMBO Journal, vol. 38, no. 21, e102361
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • MRE11A Isoform Expression Associated with Outcome Following Radiotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer does not Alter Cell Survival and DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Following Ionising Radiation

    Walker, A. K., Na, J., Browning, L., Humayun-Zakaria, N., Zeegers, M. P., Cheng, K. K., James, N. D., Bryan, R. T., Arnold, R., Kiltie, A. E.
    Bladder Cancer, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 147-157
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • MRE11 as a Predictive Biomarker of Outcome After Radiation Therapy in Bladder Cancer

    Walker, A. K., Karaszi, K., Valentine, H., Strauss, V. Y., Choudhury, A., McGill, S., Wen, K., Brown, M. D., Ramani, V., Bhattarai, S., Teo, M. T., Yang, L., Myers, K. A., Deshmukh, N., Denley, H., Browning, L., Love, S. B., Iyer, G., Clarke, N. W., Hall, E., Huddart, R., James, N. D., Hoskin, P. J., West, C. M., Kiltie, A. E.
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 809-818
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Mouse Models of Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: Key Considerations for Clinical Translation Based on Molecular Subtypes

    Ruan, J. L., Hsu, J. W., Browning, R. J., Stride, E., Yildiz, Y. O., Vojnovic, B., Kiltie, A. E.
    European Urology Oncology, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 239-247
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles

  • Utility of Bladder-Sparing Therapy vs Radical Cystectomy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

    Efstathiou, J. A., Choudhury, A., Kiltie, A. E.
    JAMA Surgery, vol. 154, no. 2, pp. 185-186
    Contributions to Journals: Letters
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