Centre Lead, Centre for Tumour Biology
Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry
London, UK

Prof Ian Hart gained his BVSc in 1972 and his Ph.D in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Bristol in 1976. He had a post-doctoral and Staff Scientist positions in the Frederick Cancer Centre, USA before returning to the UK as a Principal Scientist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1983. He was awarded the Professorship of the Richard Dimbleby Department of Cancer Research, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, in 1993. Professor Hart, who is an FRCPath, was presented in May 2000 with the highest honour that a non-medically qualified person can receive from the Royal College of Physicians, an Honorary FRCP. Currently he is Centre Lead for Tumour Biology at the CR-UK Barts Cancer Institute.

Professor Hart's main interests lie in the study of metastatic spread of cancer, the biology of melanoma and cancer gene therapy.