(Robert) Charles Swanton is British physician scientist specialising in

oncology Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (''� ...

and

cancer research Cancer research is research into cancer to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure. Cancer research ranges from epidemiology, molecular bioscience to the performance of clinical trials to evaluate and ...

. Swanton is a senior group leader at London's Francis Crick Institute, Royal Society Napier Professor in Cancer and thoracic medical oncologist at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

and University College London Hospitals, co-director of the

Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organization. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and was formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and t ...

(CRUK) Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, and Chief Clinician of Cancer Research UK.

Education

Swanton completed was educated at

St Paul's School, London (''By Faith and By Learning'') , established = , closed = , type = Independent school Public school , religion = Church of England , president = , h ...

and completed his PhD in 1999 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.

Research and career

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. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: 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. Swanton is a co-founder of Achilles Therapeutics with Sergio Quezada, Karl Peggs and Mark Lowdell. Achilles Therapeutics is a UCL/CRUK and Francis Crick Institute biotechnology company funded by Syncona that develops adoptive

T cell A T cell is a type of lymphocyte. T cells are one of the important white blood cells of the immune system and play a central role in the adaptive immune response. T cells can be distinguished from other lymphocytes by the presence of a T-cell r ...

therapies targeting clonal/truncal neo-antigens present in every tumour cell to limit drug resistance and tumour evolution.

Awards and honours

* 1997:

Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organization. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and was formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and t ...

's (ICRF) Pontecorvo PhD thesis prize * 2011:

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...

(FRCP) * 2014: Jeremy Jass Prize in pathology * 2015:

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) is an award for medical scientists who are judged by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences for the "excellence of their science, their contribution to medicine and society and the range of th ...

(FMedSci) * 2015: Stand up to Cancer Translational Cancer Research Prize * 2016: Glaxo Smithkline

Biochemical Society The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences. Structure It currently has around 7000 members, two-thirds in the UK. It is affiliated with th ...

Prize * 2016: San Salvatore prize for Cancer Research * 2017: CRUK Translational Research Prize in 2017, * 2017:

EMBO Member Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is an award granted by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in recognition of "research excellence and the outstanding achievements made by a life scientist". , 88 EMB ...

in 2017 * 2017: Ellison-Cliffe Medal by the

Royal Society of Medicine The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a medical society in the United Kingdom, headquartered in London. History The Society was established in 1805 as Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, meeting in two rooms in barristers’ chamber ...

* 2018: Elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

(FRS) * 2018: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre Kraft Prize * 2018: Gordon Hamilton Fairley Medal and Lecture *2019: ESMO Translational Research Award *2020: Addario Lung Cancer Foundation Award and Lecture *2021: Weizmann Institute - Sergio Lambroso Award in Cancer Research *2021: Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research

Personal life

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Swanton, Charles 1972 births Living people People educated at St Paul's School, London Alumni of University College London British oncologists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization