Grant Stewart was trained as an academic surgeon at the University of Edinburgh becoming Senior Lecturer and Group Leader of the Edinburgh Urological Cancer Group in 2013. In 2015, he moved to Cambridge where, in 2020, he became Professor of Surgical Oncology and has a focus on developing and promoting surgery related clinical trials and translational research. As a urological surgeon, Grant has a specific interest in optimising management of patients with initially localised renal cancer, by the development of early detection and optimal peri-surgical management. In 2016 Grant developed the robotic kidney surgery programme in Cambridge and led the development of the multi-speciality robotic surgery programme which commenced in 2023. Grant is Director of the CRUK Cambridge Centre Urological Malignancies Virtual Institute and Integrated Cancer Medicine Program. He is passionate about clinical and academic training and Director of the Academic Clinical Fellow Programme in Cambridge, one of the UK’s largest ACF programme. He is Deputy Editor of The Surgeon and Section Editor of British Journal of Urology International. Grant is a trustee of Kidney Cancer UK. In terms of policy change, Grant is Clinical Director of the National Kidney Cancer Audit, Clinical lead for the NICE Kidney Cancer Guideline and Chair of the Getting It Right First Time Kidney Cancer Pathway.

Dr Mireia Crispin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology of the University of Cambridge and Group Leader at the Early Cancer Institute. Her research group focuses on the development of radiogenomic data integration models to understand and predict the evolution of hard-to-treat cancers. She co-leads the Ovarian Programme at the CRUK Cancer Centre, and the Mark Foundation Institute for Integrated Cancer Medicine. She is also the Chief Digital Officer of 52 North Health, an award-winning biotech start-up developing affordable at-home tests for cancer patients. Dr Crispin worked previously at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and was the Director of the Healthcare Innovation programme of the Center for the Governance of Change at IE University (Madrid, Spain), focusing on policy challenges for the integration of AI and digital health in European healthcare. She holds a PhD in Particle Physics (University of Oxford, 2015). She is an author in over 400 publications and has received numerous national and international awards, most recently finalist of the Cancer Research Horizons Early-Career Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 award.