Charles Swanton
University College Hospital
Robert Charles Swanton is a British physician scientist specialising in oncology and cancer research. 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 and University College London Hospitals, co-director of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, and Chief Clinician of Cancer Research UK. He has served on the Novartis Board of Directors since 2026.
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Robert Charles Swanton is a British physician scientist specialising in oncology and cancer research. 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 and University College London Hospitals, co-director of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, and Chief Clinician of Cancer Research UK. He has served on the Novartis Board of Directors since 2026.
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University College Hospital
Top Publications
- Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing (2012) - 7,962 citations
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (2016) - 6,021 citations
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (2012) - 4,064 citations
- Clonal neoantigens elicit T cell immunoreactivity and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade (2016) - 3,198 citations
- Clonal Heterogeneity and Tumor Evolution: Past, Present, and the Future (2017) - 3,030 citations
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- Full name
- Charles Swanton
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-4299-3018
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5016475369
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- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
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- Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing ↗2012 · New England Journal of Medicine7,962OpenAlex citations
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- 4,064OpenAlex citations
- 3,198OpenAlex citations
- 3,030OpenAlex citations
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- Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing ↗2012 · New England Journal of Medicine
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