Dr Simon Lord

Dr 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 and in particular advanced breast cancer. His main research interest is in the development of new drugs to treat breast cancer and he is a senior member of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Oxford.

He 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.

He 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. 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.