Charles Swanton

Charles Swanton, MD, PhD, is Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and Group Leader of the Translational Cancer Therapeutics laboratory at the London Research Institute. He combines his laboratory research with clinical duties focused on biological mechanisms of cancer drug resistance. Dr. Swanton is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Chair in Personalized Cancer Medicine and Consultant Thoracic Medical Oncologist at University College London Hospitals (UCLH). Dr. Swanton is the Chief Investigator of the CRUK TRACERx lung cancer evolution study and is Director of the CRUK/UCL Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence. In 2013, he was awarded the Royal College of Physicians Goulstonian lecture and Graham Bull Prize for Clinical Sciences, and was appointed Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences. Dr. Swanton holds an MD and a PhD from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories.