Alexander Light

Mr. Alexander Light is an NIHR-funded Academic Clinical Fellow with the Imperial Prostate group at Imperial College London and a urology trainee in the North London Deanery.

He graduated from Guy's, King's, and St Thomas' School of Medical Education in 2019 with Triple Distinction, where he was also awarded a First-Class Honours BSc in Anatomy, Developmental, and Human Biology. He subsequently completed the Academic Foundation Programme in Cambridge, conducting prostate cancer research in active surveillance, prognostic modeling, and artificial intelligence. He returned to London in 2021 to start his ACF.

Alex's research in Imperial Prostate focuses on the diagnosis of recurrent prostate cancer after previous radiotherapy or focal therapy using imaging modalities like multiparametric MRI and PSMA PET/CT, in addition to subsequent treatment with salvage focal ablation. He is also involved in research in the primary setting, including the IP6-CHAIROS and IP7-PACIFIC trials. He has presented work internationally and has been published as a first author in high-impact journals including European Urology, The Lancet Digital Health, and NPJ Digital Medicine.

Alex is also an advocate for collaborative research having spent over 4 years on the committee of the trainee-led British Urology Researchers in Surgical Training (BURST) research collaborative, helping run practice-changing projects like FIX-IT, LEARN, and RESECT.