Rebecca Fitzgerald#
| Membership Number: | 5956 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/directory/r-fitzgerald |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3434-3568 |
| Twitter: | @RFitzgerald_lab |
Present and Previous Positions
- April 2022 Director of Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge
- March 2019 Cambridge Lead for CRUK International Alliance Cancer Early Detection
- Jan 2017 Lead for CRUK Early Detection Programme, Cambridge Cancer Centre
- Oct 2014 Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge
- Jan 2001 Honorary Consultant Gastroenterology & Oncology Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
- Oct 2002 College Lecturer and Fellow in Medical Sciences Trinity College, Cambridge
- Dec 2019 - April 2022 Interim Director of MRC Cancer Unit of the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre
- 2012 – 2017 NIHR Research Professor, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge
- 1997 – 2001 Postdoctoral Research Training, continued in parallel to Clinical Specialist Training, MRC Clinician Scientist, Digestive Diseases Research Centre, St. Bart’s & Royal London NHS Trust
- 1995 - 1997 Research Fellow, Stanford University Center for Molecular Biology in Medicine, CA, USA
- 1992 - 1995 House Officer and Senior House Officer Medical Rotation, East of England Hospitals, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Diagnostics
- Early detection of cancer
- Cancer detection biomarkers Oesophageal cancer
- Hereditary Diffuse Gastric cancer
- Genomics
- Sequencing technologies
- Barrett's oesophagus
- Familial gastric cancer
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2022 Don Listwin Early Detection Award
- 2021 Jorge Barrio Award and Annual plenary Lecture World Molecular Imaging Award
- 2021 Elected Member of EMBO
- 2020 Sir Arthur Hurst Lecture and Prize for British Society of Gastroenterology
- 2020 Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Silver Award
- 2019 NIHR Senior Investigator Award
- 2018 Jane Wardle Prevention and Early Diagnosis prize awarded by Cancer Research UK
- 2018 Croonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians
- 2016 British Medical Journal Gastroenterology Team of the Year
- 2014 United European Gastroenterology Research Prize
- 2013 Fellow Academy Medical Sciences, FMedSci
- 2013 Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences (elected)
- 2011 NHS Innovation Award for work on Cytosponge
- 2008 Lister Institute Research Prize and Fellowship
- 2007 Fellow of Institute of Learning and Teaching (member 2002, fellow 2007)
- 2007 Sir Francis Avery Jones Medal awarded by British Society of Gastroenterology
- 2007 Goulstonian Lecturer appointed by Royal College of Physicians & Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2006 Invited visiting faculty to Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA
- 2005 European Rising Star in Gastroenterology prize
- 2004 Westminster Medal and prize for excellence in Science and Technology
