Cancer researchers

Peter H. Duesberg (born December 2, 1936) is a German American molecular biologist and a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rakesh K. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School and Director of the E.

Ayub Khan Ommaya, MD, ScD (h.c.), FRCS, FACS (April 14, 1930 in Mian Channu – July 11, 2008 in Islamabad) was a Pakistani-American neurosurgeon and the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir.

Khawla S. Al-Khuraya is a Saudi physician and cancer specialist.

Robert Tod Schimke (October 25, 1932 – September 6, 2014) was an American biochemist and cancer researcher.

Karl-Henrik Robèrt, M.

Stuart A. Aaronson, M.

Dr. Harry V. Gelboin (1929-2010) was a cancer research scientist who made major contributions to our knowledge of chemical carcinogenesis.

Lynda Chin is an American medical doctor.

Saurabh Saha is an American physician, scientist, and cancer researcher.

Tomizo Yoshida (吉田 富三 Yoshida Tomizō, 1903–1973) was a prominent Japanese pathologist, famous for discovering the Yoshida Sarcoma.

David Khayat (born August 27, 1956) is a French oncologist.

Sister Dr. Rosalie Bertell (April 4, 1929 – June 14, 2012) was an American scientist, author, environmental activist, epidemiologist, and sister of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, best known for her work in the field of ionizing radiation.

José Baselga, MD, PhD.

Joseph W. Cullen (1936–1990) was the director of the AMC Cancer Research Center, and Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute.

Thomas J. Kelly is an American cancer researcher whose work focuses on the molecular mechanisms of DNA replication.

Dmitry Gabrilovich, M.

David H. Gorski is an American surgical oncologist, Professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, specializing in breast cancer surgery.

Marvin Zelen (June 21, 1927 – November 15, 2014) was Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.

Emil "Tom" Frei III (February 21, 1924 – April 30, 2013) was an American physician and oncologist.

Kari Kustaa Alitalo (born 21 May 1952 Kuopio ) is a Finnish MD and a medical researcher.

Katsusaburō Yamagiwa (山極 勝三郎 Yamagiwa Katsusaburō, 23 February 1863 - 2 March 1930) was a Japanese pathologist who carried out pioneering work into the causes of cancer.

Kenneth J. Pienta is the Donald S.

Shahrokh François Shariatis currently professor and chairman of the Department of Urology at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Austria.

Sabera Nazneen Rahman CBE FMedSci is a geneticist who specialises in cancer research and head of Genetics and Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research.

Shigekazu Nagata (長田 重一 Nagata Shigekazu, born 1949) is a Japanese molecular biologist, best known for research on apoptosis, the process of programmed cell death occurring in multi-cellular organisms.

Henry Harrington Janeway (19 March 1873 – 1 February 1921) was an American physician and pioneer of radiation therapy.

Marcel R.M. van den Brink (born 1960) is a Dutch hematologist and researcher who is an expert in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for cancer patients.

Stephen Philip Jackson, FRS, FMedSci, (born 17 July 1962) is the Frederick James Quick Professor of Biology and a Fellow of St.

Fadlo R. Khuri is a Lebanese-American oncologist specializing in the study of cancers of the lung and aerodigestive tract.

Charles George Moertel (October 17, 1927—June 27, 1994) was an American cancer researcher who worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Professor Dame Lesley Jean Fallowfield (born October 1949) is a British cancer psychologist and a professor of psycho-oncology at the University of Sussex.

Charles Heidelberger (December 23, 1920 – January 18, 1983) was a cancer researcher who developed and patented an anticancer drug called 5-Fluorouracil that remains widely used against cancers of the stomach, colon and breast.

Mitsuaki Yoshida (吉田 光昭 Yoshida Mitsuaki, born 1939) was a Japanese virologist known for identifying the molecular structure of Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 responsible for Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma.

James Lewis Abbruzzese, MD is the Chief of the Duke Division of Medical Oncology and Associate Director for Clinical Research for the Duke Cancer Institute.

Ting-Chao Chou (born 1938 in Taiwan, Chinese name: 周廷潮) is a Chinese American theoretical biologist, pharmacologist, cancer researcher and inventor.

Bharat B Aggarwal is an Indian-American biochemist.

James C. Coyne is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Azra Raza is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) Center at Columbia University.

Angela Hartley Brodie (born 28 September 1934) is a British cancer researcher who pioneered development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors.

Angus George Dalgleish (born May 1950 in Harrow, London) MD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci is a Professor of Oncology at St George's, University of London known for his contributions to HIV/AIDS research.

Georg Franz Weber (* 1962 in Erlangen, Germany) is a cancer researcher, who has made substantial contributions to the exploration of metastasis by defining the physiologic role of metastasis genes as stress response genes and by discovering the interaction between the molecules osteopontin and CD44.

Gerard Ian Evan FRS, FMedSci (born 17 August 1955) is a British biologist and Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Sudhir Srivastava, PhD, MPH, is chief of the Cancer Biomarkers Research Group of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the United States NCI.

Carlos Cordon-Cardo (born 1957) is a Spanish-born American physician and scientist known for his research in experimental pathology and molecular oncology.

Aldred Scott Warthin (October 21, 1866 − May 23, 1931) was an American pathologist whose research laid the foundation for understanding the heritability of certain cancers.

Mien-Chie Hung (Chinese: 洪明奇; born September 4, 1950) is a Taiwanese-born American molecular biologist and cancer researcher.

Antoinette (Tony) Pirie (4 October 1905 – 11 October 1991) was a British biochemist, ophthalmologist, and educator.

Frank J. Rauscher, III, Ph.

Professor Simon Tavaré, FRS, FMedSci, CSci, CStat, is Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Professor of Cancer Research (Bioinformatics) at the Department of Oncology and Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, also at Cambridge.

Maurice Lenz (March 23, 1890 – January 4, 1974) was a pioneer in the field of radiation therapy.

Isaac Folorunso Adewole FAS (born 5 May 1954) is a Nigerian professor of gynaecology and obstetrics.

Susan K. Gilmour (born 1953) is an American cancer biologist and professor at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), a biomedical research facility in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and part of Main Line Health.

Peter B. Bach is a physician, epidemiologist, and writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where he is Director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes.

Evans received his doctoral degree (Pharm.D) from the University of Tennessee (1975), and spent a sabbatical year at the University of Basel (1987–88) studying pharmacogenomics.

Yoram Chaiter is a physician, cancer researcher, researcher in the fields of epidemiology,public health and quality in healthcare and bass singer.

Antoine Prioré (or Priore) (April 10, 1912 – May 9, 1983) was an Italian electric engineer, most well known for inventing a controversial electromagnetic device that he claimed could cure cancer.

Lennart Hardell (born 1944), is a Swedish oncologist and professor at Örebro University Hospital in Örebro, Sweden.

Demetrios A. Spandidos is a Greek virologist and cancer researcher.

Jaume Mora is a Catalonian physician and researcher specialized in pediatric cancer.

Carlo La Vecchia (born February 27, 1955) is an Italian epidemiologist.

Philippe Autier (born 29 December 1956) is a Belgian epidemiologist.

Clement Adebamowo was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and graduated BM ChB Hons from the University of Jos, Nigeria, having earned a distinction at every examination.

Antonio Brú Espino (born 1962) is Theoretical physicist and permanent professor in the Departament of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Clara D. Bloomfield, MD (born May 15, 1942 in Flushing, New York), is an American physician and cancer researcher.

Inder Mohan Verma (born November 28, 1947) is an American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego.

James L. Gulley is the Director, Clinical Trials Group within the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Jane Cooke Wright (also known as "Jane Jones") (November 30, 1919 – February 19, 2013) was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy.

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD (born November 23, 1962) is an American physician-scientist.