Jack Cuzick

Sir Jack Martin Cuzick (born 11 August 1948) is an American-born British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

Education and early life Cuzick was born in Hawthorne, California and attended El Segundo High School. He earned a BS degree in mathematics and physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1970, and a PhD in mathematics from Claremont Graduate School in 1974. He is best known for his role conducting the IBIS trials of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors for chemoprevention of breast cancer in women with high risk of developing the disease. For this research, Cuzick's team won Cancer Research UK's Translational Cancer Research Prize in 2014,

Honours and awards 2025: Received a knighthood in 2025 New Year Honours 2017: Cancer Research UK Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Prize 2017: Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cancer prevention and screening. 2016: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society. 2015: Received the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor. 2014: Cancer Research UK Translational Cancer Research Team Prize 2003: Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences