Mariam Jamal-Hanjani is Professor of Cancer Genomics and Metastasis and Group Leader of the Cancer Metastasis Lab at the UCL Cancer Institute. She obtained degrees in physics and medicine at UCL and completed her general medical and oncology training in London. In 2012, she was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Fellowship to pursue PhD studies in cancer genetics, during which she received the McElwain Prize from the Association of Cancer Physicians and the Sylvia Lawler Scientific Prize from the Royal Society of Medicine.
In 2016, Jamal-Hanjani was awarded an NIHR clinical lectureship, under which she established the UK-wide PEACE research autopsy programme as chief investigator. She was appointed Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Translational Lung Oncology in the CRUK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence at the UCL Cancer Institute in 2018. She serves as principal investigator for the TRACERx lung study at UCL and chief scientific investigator of the CHIRON study. Her research focuses on lung cancer evolution, intratumour heterogeneity, and metastasis.