Peter Johnson graduated from Cambridge University and St Thomas's Medical School. He trained in oncology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was an Imperial Cancer Research Fund Clinical Research Fellow and completed his doctoral research on the Bcl-2 gene, its potential as a therapeutic target in lymphoma and the effects of CD40 ligation on the B-cell surface. He was subsequently a Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology in the ICRF Cancer Medicine Research Unit, Leeds and took up the Chair of Medical Oncology in Southampton in 1998. He leads the Southampton Cancer Research UK Centre, responsible for bringing together a broad multidisciplinary group of basic, translational and clinical researchers, and linking the laboratory research to the extensive clinical practice in cancer treatment in the Southampton Cancer Centre. Southampton hosts an Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre and a Clinical Trials Unit, both with core support from NIHR and CR UK. He was appointed Chief Clinician for Cancer Research UK in 2008.

Qualifications

BA, University of Cambridge 1982
MB BChir, University of Cambridge 1985
MA,University of Cambridge 1986
MRCP, Royal College of Physicians 1988
MD, University of Cambridge 1994
FRCP, Royal College of Physicians 1998

Appointments held

House Physician, St Thomas’s Hospital, London. 1986

SHO rotations in General Medicine, Guy’s & St Bartholomew’s Hospitals, London. 1986-1988

Registrar in General Medicine, Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey. 1988-1989

Registrar in Medical Oncology & ICRF Clinical Research Fellow, St Bartholomew’s, London. 1989-1994

Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology, University of Leeds. 1994-1988

Prof of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton 1998 to current

Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust 1998 to current