Lewis Roberts, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D.

Lewis Roberts, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D. (I ’95, GI ’98), has been honored with a 2024 Distinguished Mayo Clinic Investigator Award. The award recognizes individuals whose research careers demonstrate evidence of great distinction, highly distinguished scholarship, creative achievement, and excellence in education and administrative responsibilities. Dr. Roberts is a consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, a clinician investigator, a professor of medicine, and the Peter and Frances Georgeson Professor in Gastroenterology Cancer Research. Dr. Roberts’ laboratory has made major, unique and widely acknowledged contributions to the understanding and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma through basic and patient-oriented studies that span the development, progression and metastasis of liver and biliary cancers.