Justin Stebbing M.D., M.A., FRCP, FRCPath, Ph.D.
Chief Medical Advisor and Member of Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Dr. Justin Stebbing, M.D., M.A., FRCP, FRC Path, Ph.D., serves as the Chief Medical Advisor of Heat Biologics, Inc. Dr. Stebbing serves as Scientific Advisor at Champions Oncology, Inc. He serves as a Advisor to Lansdowne Partners. He is a leading oncology expert. He serves as a Professor of Cancer Medicine and Oncology\Senior Lecturer at Imperial College and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene. He has extensive biopharma investment experience, served as an Advisor to Atticus Capital. He serves as the Chairman of Bb Healthcare Trust. He served as the Chairman of Member of Clinical Advisory at Heat Biologics, Inc. and serves as its Member of Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board. He serves as a Director of Curemark, LLC. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Silence Therapeutics plc and Alivia Swiss Health Management AG. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board and Member of Clinical Advisory Board at Heat Biologics, Inc. He has an extensive clinical practice and links this to a wide number of translational research studies. He serves on the Advisory Boards of a number of international cancer committees. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Blood, PNAS, The Journal of Clinical Oncology and Annals of Internal Medicine, the majority as first or last author, as well as over 100 book chapters, as well as writing regularly for national newspapers and presenting new data on optimal cancer therapies at major international conferences. He focused at Imperial on new therapies in cancer and the systemic management of patients with solid malignancies including a number of new biomarker-based approaches, with an emphasis on circulating tumour cells. The charity Action Against Cancer has been set up to support his work which concentrates on drug development and has the ambitious goal of developing cures. After completion of Junior Doctor posts in Oxford, he did a Residency (Junior Doctor) training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US, trained in Oncology at The Royal Marsden and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He trained in Medicine at Trinity College Oxford, obtaining a triple first class degree. In 2012 the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) awarded him for his first translational research professorship in oncology, aiming to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the patient to ensure therapy is personalised. Dr. Stebbing received his PhD from Imperial College, London, funded by the Medical Research Council, investigating the interplay between the immune system and cancer. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Trinity College, Oxford University in Medicine.