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Simon Buczacki is the Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professor of Colorectal Surgery with simultaneous appointments at Oxford University Hospitals and the University of Oxford.
Simon graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and then undertook his surgical training in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. During this time he carried out a PhD at the Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute in the laboratory of Professor Doug Winton.
Following on from his doctoral studies he obtained a highly competitive post-doctoral Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship to enable him to carry out both clinical work whilst also developing his own basic science laboratory group.
He was appointed as Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital in 2015 where he also led the Aerodigestive Programme for the Cambridge Cancer Centre.
In 2018 he was recruited to the world-famous Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as a Group Leader.
In 2020 he was appointed as the inaugural Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professor of Colorectal Surgery at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford.
He currently leads a research group in the Old Road Campus Research Building funded by a highly prestigious Cancer Research UK Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship.
He has published widely including major papers in Nature, Science and Cell Stem Cell. His current research interests focus on tumour evolution and cancer cell identity and his laboratory is investigating the relationship between intratumoral genetic heterogeneity and cell behaviour.
Simon has been an active medical teacher for over two decades, currently as a Fellow at Linacre College.