Professor John Primrose FMedSci
Professor of Surgery
University of Southampton
Elected Fellow 2016
Clinical trials and translational research in surgery and gastrointestinal cancer
John Primrose is Professor of Surgery at the University of Southampton and has had a most distinguished career in a highly challenging academic specialty. He has built an academic group which undertakes translational laboratory oncology and large scale randomised trials. Clinically he has developed one of the highest volume hepato-pancreato-biliary units in the UK, undertaking minimally invasive surgery of the liver and pancreas. He is known internationally as an academic surgical leader and as a supporter and mentor of junior academic surgeons.