Professor Diana Eccles is Dean of Medicine and is also Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of Southampton. She has been Chair of Cancer Genetics since 2004. She is the Chief Investigator for a large national cohort study (the Prospective study of Outcomes in Sporadic versus Hereditary breast cancer). She continues to work as an NHS consultant in clinical cancer genetics which encompasses diagnosis and management of many different genetic conditions that predispose to tumour development in families.