Dr Julian Barwell studied at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical School in London and then completed his PhD in familial breast cancer susceptibility in 2006. After finishing his training in Clinical Genetics at Guy's, St George's and The Royal Marsden Hospitals’, he became a consultant in familial cancer susceptibility in Leicester in 2007. He runs specialist clinics in inherited dermatological disorders, Von Hippel Lindau syndrome, Neurofibromatosis type 2, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and susceptibility to hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and. He has 59 publications and helped coin the internationally known phrase, the ‘Angelina Jolie effect’ of inherited breast cancer.

Dr Julian Barwell is the rare disease lead for the 100,000 Genome Project in Leicester and the Public and Patient Involvement Clinical Lead for the East of England Genomics Medicine Centre with the aim of reducing inequality of access to Genomic Medicine. He leads the team that has developed the Genomics England eligibility criteria wheels for Health Education England and is part of the Wilton Park Group, led by Colin Carmichael with the support of Professor Joanne Hackett, to develop international collaborations in Genomic Medicine.