CHARLES SWANTON
Chair, Personalised Cancer Medicine, University College London (UCL)
Co-Director, CR-UK UCL/Manchester Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence
Senior Group Leader, Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory,
Francis Crick Institute
Stand Up 2 Cancer Laura Ziskin Translational Cancer Research Prize (2015)
Fondazione San Salvatore Award for Cancer Research (Lugano, 2017)
Cancer Research UK Translational Cancer Research Prize (2017)THOMAS FARNETTI/WELLCOME IMAGES
In 1993, Charles Swanton’s clinical training was set to commence. He had just finished his preclinical work at St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Medical School when the 21-year-old opted to complete a yearlong cellular pathology program at University College London (UCL) Medical School and earn his bachelor’s degree.
There, learning about prior discoveries in cell biology from his professors, Swanton got a taste for the pursuit of scientific discovery. “I vividly remember the first lecture. The professor was setting up the overhead projector and slides, and I was preparing for two hours of tedium. Then, 30 minutes into telling us about how cells move, I was completely mesmerized,” recalls Swanton, now a cancer researcher at the Francis Crick Institute in London. The experience changed ...
