The Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Francis Lévi to a joint post in the Warwick Medical School and the Warwick Systems Biology Centre. He will have a clinical appointment at the University Hospital Birmingham. In his research he studies the role of the circadian clock in the mechanisms of cancer and its treatment with the objective of preventing cancer and improving the quality of life and cure rate of patients. He has for many years been an advocate of the use of approaches from systems biology in cancer research.