Maxine graduated from medical school at Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in 1999 and became interested in kidney cancer during her very first surgical ‘houseman job’ in Urology. After basic surgical training she was awarded an MRC clinical training fellowship for her PhD ‘The role of HIF in VHL-defective tumours’ at Imperial College London. Maxine completed specialist urology training while continuing academic research as a NIHR clinical lecturer at Cambridge University Hospitals.  Following this, she was appointed Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Royal Free and Senior Lecturer in kidney Cancer at UCL in 2015; and promoted to Professor of Urology in 2023. Both her clinical and academic research interests are focused on improving the understanding, diagnosis and treatment outcomes in early-stage kidney cancer.  Maxine’s surgical interest is in minimally invasive (laparoscopic and robot-assisted) and complex open kidney surgery, and is a committee member for the NICE and European Association of Urology guidelines for Kidney Cancer.