Professor Jeff Evans is Professor of Translational Cancer Research and Clinical Lead, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow; Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology, Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow; and Head of the Glasgow Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre.

His initial medical training was at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, and he training in Medical Oncology at Charing Cross and St George’s Hospitals Medical Schools, University of London before moving to Glasgow in 1996.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His research interests are in the pre-clinical and clinical development of novel anti-cancer therapies, including cellular therapies, he leads the Phase I trials & drug development team, and he leads clinical trials in Upper GI cancers (HCC, pancreatico-biliary, oesophago-gastric) and melanoma.

He is a member of the pancreas cancer sub-group, and the oesophago-gastric sub-group, of the National Cancer Research Institute Upper GI Clinical Studies Group. He is a member of Cancer Research UK’s Clinical Experts Review Panel, a former member of the CR-UK New Agents Committee and of the Feasibility Studies Committee. He is co-editor of clinical subjects, British Journal of Cancer