Siong-Seng Liau is an MRC and Academy of Medical Sciences Tenure-track Clinician Scientist with a concurrent post as a Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon at the University Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He obtained a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree with Distinction from the University of Edinburgh and received surgical training in Cambridge, Hong Kong, Edinburgh and Oxford. He was previously the International Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (IHPBA) Kenneth Warren Fellow at the Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA. His research interests are in translational research into the biology and therapy of pancreatic cancer and neoadjuvant clinical trials of novel therapeutics for this deadly disease.