Professor Gunter is Chair in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London and co-directs the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research Unit based at Imperial College and the Institute of Cancer Research. He holds a bachelors degree in biochemistry from Oxford University (1998) and a Ph.D in molecular epidemiology from Cambridge University (2003). He undertook postdoctoral training at the U.S National Cancer Institute and has held faculty positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Imperial College and previously headed the Nutrition and Metabolism Branch at IARC. His main research focus is understanding the role of obesity, nutrition and metabolism in cancer development and prognosis, with an emphasis on studying the mechanisms linking metabolic dysfunction and endocrine pathways with cancer. To achieve this, Marc is particularly interested in integrating population-based studies with experimental approaches to identify causal mechanisms that could be targeted for cancer prevention strategies. He currently leads several large-scale multi-disciplinary projects focused on identifying novel causes of cancer by combining molecular tools such as proteomics and metabolomics applied to prospective cohorts with experimental studies such as in DISCERN (https://discern.iarc.who.int/) and also using human interventions (PROMINENT https://www.cancergrandchallenges.org/prominent). Marc serves as a coordinator of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC; https://epic.iarc.fr/), one of the largest prospective cohort studies in the world.