Richard Wilson, MD, is Professor in Gastrointestinal Oncology at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. His clinical focus is on gastrointestinal cancers—primarily colorectal, as well as small bowel and peritoneal malignancies and he leads translational and biological research in these areas.

He is Chief Investigator on multiple local, national, and international phase I, II, and III clinical trials, and previously served as Chair of the UK National Cancer Research Institute Colorectal Clinical Studies Group (2014–2017). Professor Wilson also leads clinical academic training in gastrointestinal oncology as the Glasgow Clinical Academic Training Lead for the TRACC (Training in Research for Academic Clinician Careers) programme across the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

In 2001, he was jointly appointed as a Consultant and Senior Lecturer at the regional Cancer Centre in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). There, he established the first early-phase cancer clinical trials programme on the island of Ireland and was the founding Clinical Director of the Northern Ireland Cancer Trials Network.

Professor Wilson completed his medical degree at the Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), after which he worked in N. Ireland and Scotland as a junior doctor and engaged in three years of basic science research in colorectal cancer in QUB. He subsequently trained in clinical oncology in N. Ireland achieving UK accreditation, and then participated in a Visiting Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute in the USA. There he received specialist training in medical oncology, early phase clinical trials, gastro-intestinal cancer, clinical pharmacology and drug development.