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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Infobox scientist(Robert) Charles Swanton Шаблон:Post-nominals is British physician scientist specialising in oncology and cancer research. Swanton is a senior group leader at London's Francis Crick Institute,[1] Royal Society Napier Professor in Cancer[2] and thoracic medical oncologist at University College London[3] and University College London Hospitals,[4][5] co-director of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, and Chief Clinician of Cancer Research UK.[6][7]

Education

Swanton completed was educated at St Paul's School, London[8] and completed his PhD in 1999[9] at what was then the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories (now the Francis Crick Institute) and his Cancer Research UK clinician scientist/medical oncology training in 2008.[5]

Research and career

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Professor Swanton speaking at a conference in 2015

Swanton combines his laboratory research with clinical duties as co-director of the CRUK Lung Cancer Centre, focussed on how tumours evolve over space and time.[5] He has helped to define the branched evolutionary histories of solid tumours, processes that drive cancer cell-to-cell variation in the form of new cancer mutations or chromosomal instabilities, and the impact of such cancer diversity on effective immune surveillance and clinical outcome.[10][5][11][12]

Swanton is a co-founder of Achilles Therapeutics[13] with Sergio Quezada, Karl Peggs and Mark Lowdell. Achilles Therapeutics is a UCL/CRUK and Francis Crick Institute[14] biotechnology company funded by Syncona[15] that develops adoptive T cell therapies targeting clonal/truncal neo-antigens present in every tumour cell to limit drug resistance and tumour evolution.Шаблон:Citation needed

Awards and honours

Personal life

Swanton is the son of Robert Howard Swanton (MD, FRCP) a consultant cardiologist at UCL.[23]

References

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