Gareth Thomas BDS, MScD, PhD, FDSRCS, FRCPath, MRCP

Professor Thomas was appointed to the Chair of Experimental Pathology in 2009. He trained in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at University College Hospital, London, gaining his FDSRCS in 1994, MRCPath in 2004 and FRCPath in 2008. He undertook his PhD as an MRC Clinical Fellow at University College London and the Richard Dimblebey Department of Cancer Research, studying the functional role of alphav integrins in keratinocytes (1996-1999). In 2004 he was awarded a 5-year Clinician Scientist Fellowship from the Heath Foundation/Royal College of Pathologists to develop novel tumour therapies based on alphavbeta6 integrin expression in head and neck cancer. He was appointed Professor of Oral Pathology and Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at Barts and the London in 2007.