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Charles Swanton
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Swanton in 2018
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Robert Charles Swanton
1972 (age 53–54) Poole, Dorset, England, UK
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| Education | St Paul's School, London |
| Alma mater | University College London (MD, PhD) |
| Awards | Ellison–Cliffe Lecture (2017) EMBO Member (2017) |
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| Fields | Cancer evolution |
| Institutions | Francis Crick Institute University College London |
| Thesis | Viral cyclin disruption of mammalian cell cycle control mechanisms (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nic Jones |
Robert Charles Swanton is a British doctor and scientist who studies cancer. He is a leading expert in cancer research and works at the Francis Crick Institute in London. He is also a professor at University College London and helps lead the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, which focuses on lung cancer.
Early Life and Learning
Charles Swanton was born in Poole, a town in Dorset, England. His father was also a doctor, a heart specialist at University College London.
Swanton went to St Paul's School, London. He earned his PhD in 1999 from what is now the Francis Crick Institute. He completed his special training in cancer medicine in 2008.
What He Does
Dr. Swanton combines his work in the lab with treating patients. He studies how tumours (cancerous growths) change and grow over time and in different parts of the body.
He has helped us understand that cancers can evolve in many different ways, like branches on a tree. He also studies how these changes lead to new cancer mutations (mistakes in DNA) or problems with chromosomes. This research helps explain why some cancer treatments stop working and how the body's immune system reacts to cancer.
In 2018, Dr. Swanton helped start a company called Achilles Therapeutics. This company works on new ways to treat cancer using the body's own immune cells, called T cells. The goal is to find and destroy all cancer cells, even those that try to hide or change.
Awards and Special Recognitions
Dr. Swanton has received many important awards for his work. Here are some of them:
- 1997: Pontecorvo PhD thesis prize
- 2011: Became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
- 2014: Jeremy Jass Prize in pathology
- 2015: Became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2015: Stand up to Cancer Translational Cancer Research Prize
- 2016: Glaxo Smithkline Biochemical Society Prize
- 2016: San Salvatore prize for Cancer Research
- 2017: CRUK Translational Research Prize
- 2017: Became an EMBO Member (EMBO is an organization for top life scientists)
- 2017: Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine
- 2018: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), which is a very high honor for scientists
- 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
- 2024: Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
