Professor Marc Gunter

Dr Gunter is Professor and Chair in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London and co-directs the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research Unit based at Imperial College and the Institute of Cancer Research. He holds a Ph.D in molecular Epidemiology from Cambridge University and a degree in biochemistry from University of Oxford. He completed his post-doctoral training at the U.S National Cancer Institute and has held faculty positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and Imperial College London. He previously headed the Nutrition and Metabolism Branch at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

He is a molecular epidemiologist and his main research focus is the role of nutrition, diabetes, and obesity in cancer development and prognosis, with an emphasis on studying the mechanisms linking metabolic dysfunction and endocrine pathways with cancer.  Marc serves as joint coordinator of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC), a Cohort of more than 520,000 Europeans, and currently leads a number of large-scale multi-disciplinary projects focused on cancer etiology and prevention that employ molecular approaches within prospective cohorts and intervention studies. He has published more than 550 scientific articles and book chapters and serves on numerous scientific committees and panels for international organisations focused on causes of cancer and prevention.