Prof Martin Widschwendter (FRCOG) is Professor in Women’s Cancer at University College London (UCL) and Professor for Cancer Prevention and Screening and Director of the European Translational Oncology Prevention and Screening (EUTOPS) Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

In 2001, having completed his training in Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Austria, Martin worked at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Los Angeles (USA) on translational epigenetics under the leadership of Prof Peter A Jones. After a further three years as the lead clinician and surgeon of a large breast cancer centre in Innsbruck, he undertook sub-speciality training in gynaecological oncology at UCL. As the Head of Department of Women’s Cancer within the UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, he established a research group focusing on the role of early detection, risk prediction, and prevention of breast and gynaecological cancers and delivered several major Europe-wide research programmes, including the FORECEE programme that resulted…