Professor Prabhakar Rajan

Professor Rajan’s practice is centred on high-volume robotic prostate cancer surgery, underpinned by strong academic leadership and clinical outcomes. He has performed over 800 robotic procedures, holds a professorship at a Russell Group university, and is internationally published in prostate cancer and surgical innovation.

He is known for advanced nerve-sparing and Retzius-sparing techniques, with a clear focus on achieving excellent cancer control while preserving continence, sexual function, and overall quality of life after surgery.

His Central London practice offers rapid-access, consultant-delivered care with streamlined referrals and direct surgeon contact. Patients consistently rate their experience highly, and both patients and referring clinicians value his clear, collaborative communication style, evidence-based decision-making, and empathetic approach.

Professor Rajan graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2000, and trained in surgery in the East of Scotland. In 2005, he commenced a 3-year full-time PhD in prostate cancer genetics at Newcastle University funded by a prestigious Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship.

He moved to the West of Scotland for urology training, focussing on complex cancer surgery, and obtained urology specialist registration in 2014. In parallel, as a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, he continued post-doctoral research at the Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) Beatson Institute.

He was the first urologist in Scotland to win a highly-competitive Royal College of Surgeons of England/CR-UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship in Surgery to support his research into prostate cancer.

Professor Rajan undertook a clinical and research fellowship in robotic ‘keyhole’ prostate cancer surgery at the Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

On his return to Glasgow in 2015, he was appointed as a Consultant Urologist specialising in laparoscopic “keyhole” kidney cancer surgery. The same year, he was recruited to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust) and University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. He currently specialises in robotic prostate cancer and complex advanced testicular cancer surgeries.

Professor Rajan leads an internationally-renowned laboratory-based research group at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London and runs clinical trials to find new ways to treat prostate and testicular cancers.

Languages

Professor Rajan is fluent in English and has conversational proficiency in Tamil.

Career highlights

• First urologist in Scotland and first surgeon in the West of Scotland to win a CR-UK/RCSEng Clinician Scientist Fellowship in Surgery to establish independent prostate cancer research group
• First urologist in Scotland to be trained at the Nobel-prize awarding Karolinka Institutet and Hospital in robotic surgery
• First surgeon to be awarded a Fellowship of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science
• First Professor Robotic Surgery at Queen Mary University of London, and First Professor of Urology in 30 years at Barts and the London Medical School

Awards

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2017)
Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science (2018)
Doctify Recommended by Patient Award (2025)

Memberships

PCUK Research Innovation Award Committee
NCRI Advanced Prostate Cancer Subroup
NCRI TYA and Germ Cell Subgroup

Publications

Professor Rajan’s publications span topics from prostate cancer biology and alternative splicing mechanisms to clinical outcomes following robotic surgery, offering insight into both fundamental cancer processes and real-world treatment strategies. You can view his full list of peer-reviewed articles on PubMed here.

Current Teaching posts:
Professor of Urology and Robotic Surgery Queen Mary University of London
Honorary Professor University College London
Visiting Professor Imperial College, London