Derek Crowther FRCP, FRCR (1 July 1937 – 5 February 2024) was a British oncologist who was a professor emeritus at School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester.
[1][2] Crowther was educated at University of Cambridge and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, graduating in 1963.
[3][4] In 1973, he became the first Professor of Medical Oncology at the Christie Cancer Centre, University of Manchester.
[4] Crowther served as chair of the Leukemia Research Fund Clinical Trials Advisory Panel, and president of the Association of Cancer Physicians.
[4] Crowther was a member of the United Kingdom government's Gene Therapy Advisory Committee, which first convened in November 1993.