Matt Lechner directs a research programme into sinonasal cancer, early cancer drug development, precision medicine and smell dysfunction
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was one of the first surgeons at UCL who was awarded a Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy in 2013. He has published more than 120 original articles covering smell, rhinology, cancer biology, tumor virology and experimental cancer medicine. He is Co-Lead of the Head and Neck Domain of the 100000 Genomes Project and has been awarded the title ‘Hunterian Professor’ by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2020.