Patricia Roxburgh is currently working as a senior clinical lecturer/ honorary consultant medical oncologist in the University of Glasgow and the CRUK Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. She is chair of the Scottish Molecular tumour board, precision lead for Glasgow Experimental Cancer Medicines Centre and Lead Clinician for cancer genetics in the newly established Scottish Strategic Network for Genomic Medicine.

Her areas of specialist expertise are in the treatment of women with ovarian cancer, development of novel cancer therapies, precision oncology and ovarian cancer translation research.

Roxburgh graduated from medical school at the University of Glasgow in 2003 and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2006.  She trained in medical oncology in the West of Scotland Medical Oncology training programme and gained her certificate of completion of training in 2015. During medical oncology training she was awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinical Training Fellowship at the Beatson Institute of Cancer Research, where she completed her PhD studies investigated strategies to manipulate the TP53 pathway for cancer therapy.