Rebecca C. Fitzgerald MBBChir, MD

Rebecca Fitzgerald is an MRC Programme Leader (tenure) at the MRC Cancer Unit, and an Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology and General Medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. She also holds a personal chair in Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge. She studied Medicine at Cambridge University and gained her MD in 1997 following a period of research at Stanford University, California, with Professor George Triadafilopoulos. Her postdoctoral training took place at the Department of Adult and Paediatric Gastroenterology, St Barts and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry with Professor Michael Farthing, funded by an MRC Clinician Scientist award.

She received a Lister Prize Fellowship in 2008, and in 2013 Rebecca was awarded an NIHR Research Professorship to facilitate translational research for patient benefit. In recognition of her work she was appointed Goulstonian Lecturer by the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded the Sir Francis Avery Jones Medal from the British Society of Gastroenterology. Rebecca currently holds an NIHR Research Professorship, and in 2013 was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.