- Jerome Groopman
Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for "The New Yorker" since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books. He has published approximately 150 scientific articles and has written several Op-Ed pieces on medicine for the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", …
- Umberto Veronesi
Umberto Veronesi (born November 29, 1925) is an Italian surgeon and oncologist, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years.
- Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is a noted cancer researcher at The Johns Hopkins University. His first degree was in mathematics graduating summa cum laude in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. His interest was more in medicine and he received his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University four years later. He was subsequently a resident in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, …
- Steven Rosenberg
Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., (b. 2 August 1940) is a leading cancer researcher and surgeon. He is credited with developing the use of IL-2 and immune cells for the treatment of patients with melanoma. He has also shown that expanding immune cells in the lab can be used to treat patients with melanoma and has published two important studies describing their use.
- Lawrence Einhorn
Dr. Lawrence Einhorn is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and an oncologist.
- Robert Gallo
Robert Gallo is currently the Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Division of Basic Science at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Prior to becoming director of the Institute in 1996, Dr. Gallo spent 30 years at the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he was head of its Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology.
- William Coley
Dr. William Coley was an American bone surgeon and cancer researcher, pioneer of cancer immunotherapy. He developed a treatment based on provoking an immune response to bacteria.
- James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing was an American pathologist. He was the first Professor of pathology at Cornell University and became famous with the discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's sarcoma.
- Nicholas J. Vogelzang
Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang – Director Nevada Cancer Institute – Las Vegas, NV Board of Directors
- Victor A. Marcial-Vega
Victor A. Marcial-Vega is a radiation oncologist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is best known for his work in the field of alternative medicine. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School in 1984, and completed his internship and residency in radiation oncology in 1988 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He has taught at Washington University and at the University of Miami.
- Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1951 - March 31, 2005) was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis. In 1989 Korsmeyer was among the first to confirm that a particular form of lymphoma arose in certain B cells because they had a genetic flaw that caused them to overexpress a gene, Bcl-2, that was involved in the body's normal process for getting rid of them.
- Douglas Jackson
Douglas Jackson (born 1957) is the chairman and co-founder of e-gold. Jackson, educated as a medical doctor, previously served as a major in the United States Army Medical Corps at the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas (near San Antonio), and has previously practiced as an oncologist.
- Gordon Zubrod
Dr Charles Gordon Zubrod (1914-January 19 1999) was an American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of chemotherapy for cancer. He was one of the recipients of the 1972 Albert Lasker Awards in recognition of his contributions to the field, amongst many other doctorates and awards.
- Rob Buckman
Robert (Rob) Buckman (born August 22, 1948 in London) is a British-Canadian doctor of medicine, comedian and author, and since 1999 has been president of the Humanist Association of Canada. He first appeared in a Cambridge University Footlights Revue in 1969, and went on to present several television and radio programmes about medicine, as well as appearing on comedy programmes such as Just a Minute. He is also the author of many popular books on medicine.
- Axel Ullrich
Axel Ullrich born October 19, 1943) Lauban, Schlesien, Germany in is an German cancer researcher and has been the Director of Molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. His research has primarily focused on signal transduction. After taking a degree in biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in Molecular Genetics in 1975.
- Adamos Adamou
Adamos Adamou (born on 30 October 1950, Limassol) is a Cypriot politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Progressive Party of Working People, sitting with the European United Left-Nordic Green Left group. He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is the Chairman of the Delegations for relations between EU with the Palestinian Legislative Council.
- Jon Sudbø
Jon Sudbø is a dentist and formerly a consultant oncologist and medical researcher at The Radium Hospital in Oslo, Norway. Having earlier been licenced as a dentist and a physician, he earned a doctorate (dr. med.) in 2001. Until February 2006 he was an associate Professor at the University of Oslo. In November, 2006 his license to practice medicine and dentistry were revoked, and on December 19, 2006, …
- Robert Courtney
Robert Ray Courtney (born 1952 in Hays, Kansas) was a pharmacist who owned and operated Research Medical Tower Pharmacy in Kansas City, Missouri. Over a period of about 9 years he diluted an estimated 98,000 prescriptions of medications, affecting some 4,200 patients; many cancer patients died after receiving diluted formulation of chemotherapy from him. He made some $19 million from the fraud. After a sting operation, he was arrested in 2001.
- Debora Green
Dr. Debora Green (born February 28 1951) was a former oncologist living in Prairie Village, Kansas, married to Michael Farrar, a cardiologist. After previously trying to poison Michael using ricin, on October 24 1995 she murdered two of her children by setting fire to the family house at 7517 Canterbury Court. She pleaded no contest before the trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 40 years before eligibility for parole.
- Gordon Hamilton-Fairley
Gordon Hamilton-Fairley (1930-1975), was one of the world's leading cancer specialists. Born and raised in Australia, he moved to the United Kingdom where he studied and worked.
- Praveen Togadia
Praveen Togadia is an oncologist from Gujarat, India, and the International General Secretary of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), a major Hindutva organization advocating for a Hindu Rashtra in India. He is a patel.Togadia was always marked for a public role, it would appear.A Saurashtrian Patel-a caste identity he shares with Keshubhai Patel, …
- M. Krishnan Nair
M. Krishnan Nair (doctor) is a leading oncologist working in India. He is the founding director of the Regional Cancer Center (RCC) at Trivandrum, a director of the S.U.T. Institute of Oncology in Thiruvananthapuram(Trivandrum) and a professor at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research in Kochi. He received the "Padma Shri" award from the President of India.
- Baruch Modan
Dr. Baruch Modan (born c. 1944) is a famous medic from Israel. Dr. Modan has made significant findings in his specialized field, oncology, and he is also an expert in radiation. Admired by many of his colleagues, Dr. Modan has worked with various types of cancer, and, in 1974, he demonstrated that chances of getting breast cancer increase for anyone who has X-rays done with doses as low as 1.6 rem. He is also an expert on treating cancer among children.
- David P. Lane
Sir David Philip Lane FRS, FRSE FRCPath (born 1952) is a British oncologist. He is best known for his work on the p53 tumour suppressing-protein. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1999.
- Barnett Rosenberg
Barnett Rosenberg (1926 -) is an American chemist best known for the discovery of the anti-cancer drug cisplatin. Rosenberg obtained his PhD in Physics at New York University (NYU) in 1956. He joined Michigan State University in 1961 and worked there until 1997. In 1965, Rosenberg and his colleagues proved that certain platinum-containing compounds inhibited cell division and thereby cured solid tumors. The chemotherapy drug that eventually resulted from this work, …
- Tak Wah Mak
Tak Wah Mak, (born 1946 in China) is an award-winning Canadian researcher who has worked in a variety of areas including biochemistry, immunology, and cancergenetics. He first became widely known for his pioneering work in the genetics of immunology. Born in southern China in 1946 and raised in Hong Kong, Mak studied biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Wisconsin. In the early 1970s, he earned his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton.
- Bert M. Petersen
Bert M. Petersen, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., is the Chief of Breast Surgery and Co-Chief of The Division of Breast Oncology at The Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. He also presides as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School.
- Henry Clay Frick II
Henry Clay Frick II (1919-2007) was an American physician and professor of medicine at Columbia University. He was born on October 19, 1919 in New York City the son of Childs Frick (1883-1965), the paleontologist, and grandson of his namesake, the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919). He attended St. Paul's School. In 1942 he graduated from Princeton University and then from the medical school in 1944 at Columbia.
- Robert Abbe
Robert Abbe (1851 - 1928), was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born April 13, 1851, at New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York (S.B., 1871) and Columbia University (M.D., 1874). Abbe was most known as a plastic surgeon, and between 1877 and 1884 he served as a surgeon and professor of surgery at the New York Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, and the New York Babies Hospital.
- Ng Eng Hen
Dr Ng Eng Hen (born 10 December 1958) is the Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Defence of the Republic of Singapore. He was also a member of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the People's Action Party. Dr. Ng is a Member of Parliament for the Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency.
- Marco Antonio Zago
Marco Antonio Zago is a Brazilian physician and prominent medical scientist, who is active in the fields of hereditary diseases of the blood (hemoglobins, clotting, thrombosis), molecular basis of cancer and human population genetics. Since 2007 he is also the president of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). Dr. Zago graduated in Medicine from the School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo in 1970, where he received the M.Sc.
- Frederick Pei Li
Frederick Pei Li (born 1940) is an American physician. Frederick Pei Li was born in Canton, China (Guangzhou), and raised in New York City where his parents operated a Chinese restaurant. He received a B.A. in physics from New York University, an M.D. from the University of Rochester, and M.A. in demography from Georgetown University. In 1967 he joined the Epidemiology Branch of the NCI.
- José María Mainetti
José María Mainetti was an Argentine physician, surgeon and oncologist. Mainetti was born in Hinojo, Buenos Aires. He spent most of his childhood and youth in La Plata, were his family moved in 1911. He finished his medicine studies in 1932. Since 1940 he started working also as a professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. In 1969 he created the "Fundación para el Progreso" ("Foundation for Progress") which later became "Fundación Dr.
- Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo (born 1973) is a Trinidadian writer who has lived in the United Kingdom since 1991.She has one brother Dr Kavi Capildeo, consultant oncologist/haematologist. She was born in Port of Spain, a member of the extended Capildeo family which has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers (including V. S. Naipaul). She was educated at Oxford University ([[Christ Church, Oxford]; Rhodes Scholar) and later held a research fellowship at Girton College, …
- Arnold Graffi
Dr. Arnold Graffi was a pioneering German doctor in the area of experimental cancer research. Graffi was born in the Saxon town of Bistritz (Bistriţa) in Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary. He studied medicine at Marburg, Leipzig, and Tübingen before receiving his doctorate at the Charité in Berlin. Graffi worked at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Frankfurt. He taught at the Humboldt University of Berlin from the mid-1940s until 1975, when he retired.
- Randi Schea
Randi Schea is a Modern Arnis Master of Tapi-Tapi and the Chairman of the Board for the larger of the two Modern Arnis groups calling itself the International Modern Arnis Federation (IMAF). He has also trained in karate, kung fu, judo, wrestling, and aikido. Though a licensed physician specializing in cardiology, he now works as a stock trader. He lives near Houston, Texas.
- Ted Devita
Ted DeVita (1962-May 27, 1980) was a victim of severe aplastic anemia who was forced to live in a sterile hospital room for eight and a half years. His story, along with that of Texas patient David Vetter, was used to create the 1976 made-for-TV movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble". In the film, John Travolta played "Tod," a teenaged boy who lived in a sterile bubble due to illness. Ted was 14 when the film, unauthorized by his family, was released.
- Benicio Del del Toro
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is an Academy Award-winning Puerto Rican actor and film producer. He grew up in Santurce, but spent his adolescence and high school years in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, USA. His parents, Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Sánchez Rivera, were both lawyers. He has an older brother, Gustavo, who is a pediatric oncologist working in Manhattan.
- Dr Roberto Mauri MD
- Dr Lane Randall Rosen MD