Rebecca Fitzgerald OBE MD FRS FMedSci HonFREng EMBO is Professor of Cancer Prevention and Founding Director of the Early Cancer Institute at the University of Cambridge and practices medicine as Hon. Consultant in Gastroenterology at Addenbrooke's Hospital. After training in Cambridge, Stanford and London she moved to Cambridge to focus on research to understand how tissues become cancerous and whether identifying pre-cancer at scale can reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer of the oesophagus. Interdisciplinary research is key to her approach, especially with bioengineering and public health, which forms the philosophy underpinning the Early Cancer Institute. She been awarded several prizes including the Westminster Medal, an NHS Innovation prize, The Croonian Medal from the Royal College of Physicians, the Cancer Research UK Horizons Impact and Entrepreneurship Ward Award and the Don Listwin Early Detection Prize. In 2022 Rebecca was awarded an OBE for services to cancer research.