His specialty is clinical and translational research in renal cell cancer, melanoma and lung cancer.
He was investigator in key clinical trials dealing with chemotherapy methods and dosages in small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. He has written several hundred peer-reviewed papers in major scientific medical journals[2] and has directed several PhD theses. He is joint editor of the textbook, New perspectives in lung cancer / edited by Nick Thatcher and Stephen Spiro., 2nd ed, Edited by Martin Muers, Nicholas Thatcher, Francis Wells & Andrew Miles.