Prof Chiara Braconi is Chair of Hepatobiliary Oncology within the School of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. She also holds a honorary contract as Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.

Her research is focused on hepato-biliary tumours, and aims at delineating novel treatment strategies for these cancers by integrating genomics, epigenomics and patient derived models for the identification of novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers.

She is currently working within national and international consortia (European Network for the Study of Cholangiocarcinoma, COST-action PrecisionBTC, and Cholangiocarcinoma-UK) to support a collaborative international research programme in biliary cancers.