Professor Tom Connors and the development of novel cancer therapies by the Phase I/II Clinical Trials Committee of Cancer Research UK

On the 7th of May 2002 a conference of the Cancer Research UK Phase I/II Clinical Trials Committee was held to commemorate the achievements of the late Professor Tom Connors in the field of cancer drug development. Tom Connors died on the 4th of February 2002 from the disease he had spent his life studying, and obituaries chronicling his many scientific and personal attributes and contributions have been written ( Double, 2002 ; Newell, 2002 ).