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Professor John Primrose is a Professor of Surgery within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, a position he has held since 1994. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator and a member of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition to his primary role, he holds honorary chairs at the University of Glasgow (his alma mater) and Emory University, Atlanta. His professional affiliations include chairing the Deutche Krebshilfe (German Cancer Aid) Translational Funding Committee and serving on the MRC Clinical Training Board and the UKRI Future Leaders Panel. Previously, he contributed to multiple Cancer Research UK (CRUK) committees and chaired the NCRI Upper GI Clinical Studies Group.
Primrose trained in surgery at the University of Glasgow and the University of Leeds, progressing from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer before joining Southampton. His clinical focus is on gastrointestinal cancers, particularly hepatobiliary (HPB) cancers, and he leads at one of the UK’s largest tertiary referral centers for HPB disease and the biggest laparoscopic HPB center.
His research emphasizes gastrointestinal cancer, clinical and translational studies, and health services research. He devises large-scale trials, such as the FACS trial (definitive study on colorectal liver metastases surveillance) and the BILCAP trial (showing chemotherapy’s survival benefits for biliary tract cancer). His work also explores biomarkers and the effects of cetuximab in colorectal cancer treatment (New EPOC trial) and applies machine learning to abdominal CT imaging for treatment outcome prediction.
Primrose has secured grants from CRUK, Merck Healthcare KGaA, and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He co-edits the Oxford Textbook of General Surgery and chairs CRUK-funded translational projects such as BILCAP tissue sequencing to identify actionable mutations in bile duct cancers. His contributions to surgical education include international lectures and training initiatives for clinical academic surgeons.
He has been recognized with an H-index of 50, reflecting his prolific publication record. Key awards include his NIHR Senior Investigator status and Academy of Medical Sciences membership. His advisory roles span the MRC/CRUK S:CORT collaborative, EORTC committees, and global surgical studies like GlobalSurg 4.
