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Charles Swanton is a clinician scientist, focusing on understanding the challenges of managing metastatic cancer and drug resistance. He completed his PhD in 1998 at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories as part of the UCL MBPhD program, followed by a postdoctoral clinician scientist training funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) in 2008. He became a senior clinical research fellow and Group Leader at the Translational Cancer Therapeutics laboratory at the London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) and serves as a consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital. In 2011, he was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Chair of Personalised Cancer Medicine at UCL Cancer Institute. Swanton is also a Chief Investigator for the CRUK TRACERx clinical study, which seeks to understand lung cancer evolution. He has published over 200 papers in prestigious journals and has made significant contributions to the understanding of genomic diversity in cancers and the mechanisms driving cancer evolution. Throughout his career, Swanton has received numerous accolades, including Fellowships in major medical societies and various prestigious awards for his research endeavors.
Francis Crick Institute • London
Overseeing clinical research and translational cancer studies.
UCL Hospitals • London
Providing clinical care and research leadership in oncology.
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