Dr Sanjay Popat is Consultant Thoracic Medical Oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Molecular Genetics and Genomics Group at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
Dr Popat has published in the fields of genetics, therapeutic biomarkers and medical oncology. He has been awarded nationally and internationally competitive prizes for his research, in addition to 4 research fellowships. He is an active member of the EORTC Lung Group, ETOP and currently chairs the UK NCRI Advanced Diseases Subgroup of the Lung Cancer CSG.
Dr Popat joined the BTOG Steering Committee in 2010 and since then has led on the provision of specialist study days as well as chairing and speaking at many BTOG annual conferences.