Professor Beggs is the founder of the Beggs Lab and Reader in Cancer Genetics & Surgery in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham, as well as the Consultant Colorectal & General Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

He is part of the West Midlands multi-disciplinary team delivering the pelvic exenteration service and is a member of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Colorectal Cancer Clinical Support Group (CSG).

Professor Beggs has a special interest in the multi-omic profiling of cancers, in particular, colorectal, oesophageal and sarcoma and the Beggs Lab is part of the Human Model Cancers Initiative.

He is a member of the Human Cancer Models Initiative, and a member of the consortium that sequenced the reference human genome.

Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery, University of Birmingham