Caroline Dive is Deputy Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute and is internationally renowned for advancing circulating biomarker research in lung cancer. She has transformed the field of biomarker research and early clinical trial activities. She has established successful collaborations with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Trials Unit; engaged effectively with the Pharmaceutical Industry, and designed and led a Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship Scheme that prepares young medical oncologists for the challenges of personalised medicine for cancer treatment.|She is committed to nurturing the next generation of clinical researchers in oncology and has a pivotal role in establishing powerful alliances between academia, industry and the NHS that are key to the advancement of medical science.|