Adrian L Harris is the Cancer Research UK Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Oxford, and directs the Cancer Research UK Molecular Oncology Laboratories at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM). He is a Consultant Medical Oncologist, a Professorial Fellow of St Hugh's College Oxford, the Chairman of the CRUK Oxford Cancer Centre, and joint lead of the Cancer theme of the Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre in Oxford. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Cancer and on the Editorial Board of Cancer Cell, being a Senior Investigator in the National Institute of Health Research and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

He is a 'Highly Cited Researcher 2014' ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication-between 2002 and 2012 and included in Thomson Reuters' '2014 World's Most Influential Scientific Minds.'

He directs the Molecular Oncology Laboratories at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, and has been managing breast cancer patients for over 30 years.