Dr Simon Lord

Professor Simon Lord is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Oxford Cancer Centre and Clinical Academic at the University of Oxford specialising in the treatment of breast cancer. His main research interest is in the development of new drugs to treat breast cancer and he is the director of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Lord undertook his oncology training as a Walport Academic Fellow in Leeds and Oxford and in 2010 was awarded a CRUK Clinical Research Fellowship at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. Here he earned a DPhil for his work investigating therapeutic approaches to target breast cancer metabolism.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Lord is very active in the field of research and is principal and chief investigator on a number of clinical trials of novel therapies and cancer imaging techniques. He is a module lead for the Precision Cancer Medicine MSc at the University of Oxford and a research fellow at Oriel College, University of Oxford. He sits on the Breast Cancer Now Grants Advisory Committee, National Cancer Research Institute Clinical Trials Pathology Advisory Group Committee and is a board member of the National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA) Clinical Trials Unit.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Chemotherapy
• Breast Cancer
• Clinical Trials