Fiona Walter is Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK, where she is also Director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and the Institute of Population Health Sciences. Fiona is also Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at The Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research group delivers world-class research focusing on the cancer pathway, from prevention, screening, early detection and diagnostics to post-treatment care; she also focus on translating genetics advances into primary care. Fiona co-leads the international, multi-institutional CanTest Collaborative, Cancer Research UK’s first Catalyst award, aiming to accelerate progress towards improving cancer outcomes by focussing on the transformative implementation in primary care of tests to support early detection of cancer. She is an inaugural member of Cancer Research UK’s Early Detection & Diagnosis Committee. Her international work is marked by an honorary academic role at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she contributes to parallel programmes of work on improving outcomes for cancer patients. She also co-leads research in Southern Africa and contributes to research in Europe and the US.