Anthony read medicine at Barts and The London School of Medicine in London and undertook clinical oncology training at Barts and The Royal Marsden Hospitals. He did his PhD research at CRUK London Research Institute Lincoln’s Inn Laboratories, and received a PhD from University College London. Following his PhD, he was awarded a clinical scientist fellowship by Breakthrough Breast Cancer and became a clinician scientist and a group leader at University of Oxford in 2008. He took up a clinical senior lecturer position at the University of Birmingham in January 2015. And since July 2019, he has been a reader at King's College London and an honorary NHS Consultant in Clinical Oncology at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. His research interest is personalized medicine, translational research and clinical trials.