Duncan Gilbert graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1997 and trained in Clinical Oncology in Sussex and at the Royal Marsden Hospitals. As part of his training he undertook a PhD in the molecular biology of testicular cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research and also spent 6 months working at the Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital, Nepal. He is now a Consultant Clinical Oncologist treating patients with Anal and Colorectal Cancers at the Sussex Cancer Centre in Brighton, Sussex and an Associate Professor of Cancer and Clinical Trials at the Innovative Clinical Trials Unit at UCL. He is the translational lead for the UK Anal Cancer PLATO platform trial, funded by Cancer Research UK, is on the faculty of the bi-annual International Multidisciplinary Anal Cancer Consortium (IMACC) confererence and is co-chair of the translational working group for Anal Cancer within IRCI.