Sanjay Popat
Enriched profileChief Medical Officer, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Sanjay Popat is Chief Medical Officer, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. OpenAlex indexes 838 publications with 31,310 citations (h-index 64); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 13 registered studies with this person as an investigator.
Data verified 8 Nov 2026
Overview
Updated 8 Nov 2026
Sanjay Popat is Chief Medical Officer, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. The public record shows 838 publications with 31,310 citations (h-index 64), centered on Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Lung Cancer Research Studies. It also documents an investigator role on 13 registered clinical trials.
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · JCO precision oncology
- Top research focus: Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- 13 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
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Indications focus
from trials led + research topicsResearch focus
OpenAlex concept fingerprintDrugs & molecules
across trials, industry payments and publicationsWorks with
trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Publications indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID. 39 in PubMed. Counts exclude supporting files.
Citations across these publications.
H-index from these publications. i10-index 257.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingNot shown. No U.S. clinical registration on file.
Federally funded research awards.
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Contact
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Clinical trials
Updated 8 Nov 2026
Listed as an investigator on 13 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Clinical Utility of ctDNA in Detecting Resistance Mechanisms and Delivering Precision Medicine to Cancer Patients
Sponsor: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
InvestigatorRecruitingNCT07673861 - Feasibility Study of Tissue and Blood Collection in Oncogene-addicted and Neoadjuvantly Treated Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Sponsor: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
InvestigatorRecruitingNCT07008742 - Neladalkib (NVL-655) for TKI-naive Patients With Advanced ALK-Positive NSCLC
Sponsor: Nuvalent Inc.
Industry payments
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NIH funding
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Congress activity
Updated 8 Nov 2026
195 congress contributions (2004–2026) across AACR, ASCO, ASTRO, ESMO, ESTRO Congress, IASLC, ISPOR, ISPOR Europe per OpenAlex. The most recent:
- Abstract CT215: RASolve 301: A Phase 3 study of daraxonrasib (RMC-6236) vs. docetaxel in patients with previously treated RAS-mutant NSCLC
AACR Annual Meeting
AACR2026Co-author - Abstract CT248: Zidesamtinib in patients with ROS1+ NSCLC previously treated with repotrectinib or taletrectinib
AACR Annual Meeting
AACR2026Co-author
Published abstracts are attributed via the same ORCID-disambiguated authorship as publications, so each is DOI-verified. Podium roles (invited talks, session chairs) and oral/poster type are added as program data is confirmed.
Publications
Updated 8 Nov 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Genomic Analysis Using Liquid Biopsy: Considerations for Pretest Counseling in UK Practice.
JCO precision oncology
Review2026 - SUNRAY-02: a study of olomorasib combined with immunotherapy in stage II-III KRAS G12C-mutant non-small cell lung cancer after definitive therapy.
Future oncology (London, England)
Article2026 - Unilateral Scleral Icterus as a Rare Presentation of Choroidal Metastasis in Transdifferentiated EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Lung Cancer (Auckland, N.Z.)
Case Report2026
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Listed under ELCC 2026
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Online presence
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Background & recognition
Updated 8 Nov 2026
Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.
Education
degrees and training on record- BSc
MBBS, FRCP, PhD
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Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →esmo.org ↗
- Chair
NCRI Lung Cancer Clinical Studies Group Advanced Disease Sub-group
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Secondary affiliations
appointments beyond the home institution- Professor of Thoracic Oncology
Institute of Cancer Research
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Media & interviews
press, podcasts and appearances- provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →puma-potato-bxn6.squarespace.com ↗
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