Royal Marsden Hospital

Professor Mitch Dowsett, FMedSci, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Biochemical Endocrinology at the Institute of Cancer Research and Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at the Royal Marsden Hospital. 

Professor Dowsett’s research has focussed almost exclusively on breast cancer and predominantly on hormonal aspects of the disease and biomarkers of response with a research team of about 24 investigators. He was closely involved with the clinical development of aromatase inhibitors and is well known for his studies on presurgical treatment of breast cancer. He played a key role in the creation of national and international standards for steroid receptor and HER2 analyses (ASCO/CAP Guidelines Steering Committees). He co-chairs the International Working Party for Ki67 in Breast Cancer. He has mentored a large number of clinicians that have since gone on to be international authorities. He has authored approaching 700 published papers related to breast cancer, and has a current H-index of 127. He has given numerous named lectures including the 2007 William L McGuire Memorial Lecture and the 2014 Susan G Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction. He was a NCRI Senior Clinical Investigator for the permitted two 4-year terms and now has emeritus status. In 2013 he was appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2021 he joined the Board of Trustees of Breast Cancer Now and he chairs their Scientific Strategy Committee. He was the inaugural Chair and is now Honorary President of the UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium