Charles Swanton

@CharlesSwanton

Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability, Lung Oncologist Air Pollution and Drug Resistance Fair Weather 🚴

London crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-r… Joined January 2015

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Charles Swanton @CharlesSwanton Aug 31

Clinician scientist training is under threat: this analysis reviews the outcomes of a 25 yearcohort of the UCL MB-PhD program from 1995 : a long-term investment in the clinician-scientist workforce medRxiv medrxiv.org/content/10.648…

www.medrxiv.org Integrated MB-PhD training is a long-term investment in the clinician-scientist workforce Background Clinician-scientists translate clinical observation into discovery, trials, and policy, yet this workforce is shrinking across health systems worldwide. Integrated MB-PhD training, pausing...

Charles Swanton @CharlesSwanton Aug 25

Register today for the Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence Conference, 4-6 November 2026, Manchester, UK. Hear from some of the world's leading researchers and clinicians on the latest in lung cancer research. See you there. cruklcce.org

Charles Swanton @CharlesSwanton Apr 29

Excited to share our ‘Evolutionary characterization of #LungCancer metastasis’ in #TRACERx & #PEACE, published today in @Nature: a decade spanning effort led by the Jamal-Hanjani lab, @SwantonLab, @NickyMcGranahan & @ZaccaSimo at @uclcancer & @TheCrick. Link below

Charles Swanton @CharlesSwanton Apr 17

Hope to see you there if you are at #AACR2026 @CancerGrand. Add it to your programme Mon 20th Apr, 5pm - Room 11, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center.

Cancer Grand Challenges Verified account @CancerGrand Apr 17

Heading to #AACR? Don’t miss this first-of-its-kind session exploring breakthrough discoveries from Cancer Grand Challenges.

🔊Chair: @CharlesSwanton | Speakers: @balma85185, @EileenWhitePhD, Karen Cichowski (@CichowskiLab) and Mike Stratton
💡Representing teams: PROMINENT, Mutographs, SPECIFICANCER and CANCAN
📅 Monday 20 April, 5pm PT at @AACR
📌 Room 11 - Upper Level

Add this to your #AACR26 itinerary: abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21436/s…

@CR_UK, @theNCI, @UCSF. @RutgersCancer, @harvardmed, @sangerinstitute, @TheCrick

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Charles Swanton @CharlesSwanton Apr 5

People often ask how breakthroughs occur in cancer biology-often the story is more complex - the survival plot for myeloma outcomes is extraordinary - improvements come about in incremental steps - in my lifetime treatment of Myeloma has almost transformed into a curable disease