Stefan Antonowicz PhD FRCS is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. He currently holds a Clinician-Scientist Fellowship from Cancer Research UK and the Rosetress Trust. He has further funding from the Rosetrees Trust, NIHR-Imperial BRC, Cancer Research UK Convergence Science Centre and the Medical Research Council (MCMB).

His lab uses spatial biology techniques and complex ex vivo cancer models to address how non-genomic heterogeneity influences clinical outcomes in upper gastrointestinal cancers. Current areas of focus include:

1. Studying the utility of metabolism for studying non-genomic heterogeneity

2. Understanding how tissue geometry influences drug distribution

3. Novel devices to study and target non-genomic heterogeneity

Please see the Metabolic Heterogeneity Group website below for further details

PhD Students: 
1. Saki Okada, co-supervisor Tian Yuan and Daniele Dini
2. Afroza Sharmin, co-supervisor Zoltan Takats

Technician: Ana Giraldo Rincon

ACF: Max Renna

Internal appointments include leading Module 1 for the intercalated BSc in Surgical Design technology and Innovation, and the Academic Training Lead for General Surgery at Imperial. He is also a Research Committee member for the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons

He completed his clinical training in Oxford and London, and his surgical interest is minimally invasive major oesophagogastric cancer resections. If you are a patient trying to get in touch, please email Stefan's NHS secretary Nikki: nicola-anne.knowles5@nhs.net