Nigel is a Group Leader within the School of Cancer Sciences and an Honorary Consultant HPB Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He completed his medical degree at the University of Glasgow and subsequently undertook a PhD, funded by the Chief Scientist Office for Scotland, investigating gene expression signatures in pancreatic cancer.After completing his surgical training (including observership periods at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York) he undertook an international fellowship year of pancreas and liver surgery in Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. The work of the Jamieson Group is supported by a Clinical Scientist grant from Cancer Research UK.