Mr. Thaha is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust, with a clinical and research focus on cancer prevention, early diagnosis, and improving outcomes for patients and their families beyond treatment.
His research spans strategies for earlier cancer detection, predicting treatment response, developing novel surgical techniques, and addressing the unmet needs of cancer survivors. Alongside his academic and clinical work, he is an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur and MedTech Venture Builder through the CE-Track programme at LIHE — translating surgical insight into scalable healthcare innovation.
A graduate of Trivandrum Medical College, he brings a rare combination of frontline surgical experience, academic rigour, and entrepreneurial drive to some of oncology's most pressing challenges.