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Adrian L. Harris
Adrian L. Harris is a British medical oncologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford, known for research on tumor hypoxia, angiogenesis, and breast cancer.
Ashani T. Weeraratna
Ashani T. Weeraratna is a Sri Lankan-born American cancer biologist who studies melanoma metastasis and the aging tumor microenvironment, and chairs Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Johns Hopkins.
Bruce R. Zetter
Bruce R. Zetter is a cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, a pioneer in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis who defined the role of cell migration in metastatic cancer.
David D. Roberts
David D. Roberts is an American cancer biologist who spent over 40 years at the National Cancer Institute, where he identified CD47 as the key receptor for thrombospondin-1.
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Dev Mukhopadhyay, is a molecular biologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who studies the tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, and nanomedicine.
Donald R. Senger
Donald R. Senger (D. R. Senger) is a cancer researcher who discovered vascular permeability factor, renamed VEGF, now targeted by drugs treating cancer and wet macular degeneration.
Ernst Lengyel
Ernst Lengyel is a gynecologic oncologist and ovarian cancer researcher who chairs Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago, where he studies how ovarian cancer spreads in the abdominal cavity.
Gabriele Bergers
Gabriele Bergers is a cancer biologist known for work on the angiogenic switch and tumor blood vessels, and a professor of oncology at KU Leuven since 2016.
Hartmut Beug
Hartmut Beug was a German cancer biologist who studied oncogene cooperation in leukemia and EMT in metastasis, a founding Senior Scientist at the IMP in Vienna from 1988.
Herbert Levine (biological physicist)
Herbert Levine is an American biological physicist at Northeastern University known for physical models of cancer metastasis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Isaiah J. Fidler
Isaiah J. Fidler (1936–2020) was an Israeli-born American cancer researcher who founded the modern field of metastasis biology, led MD Anderson's cancer biology department, and served as AACR president.
Israël Vlodavsky
Israel Vlodavsky, born 1944 in Haifa, is an Israeli cancer and vascular biology researcher, professor emeritus at the Technion, best known for cloning heparanase and showing it drives cancer metastasis.
James P. Quigley
James P. Quigley is a cancer biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for chick-embryo models of metastasis and research on tumor cell intravasation.
Janine T. Erler
Janine Terra Erler is a professor at the University of Copenhagen's Biotech Research and Innovation Centre known for identifying lysyl oxidase as a driver of cancer metastasis.
Jing Yang
Jing Yang is a molecular oncologist at UC San Diego, where she leads the Cancer Biology and Signalling Program at Moores Cancer Center and studies Twist1 in tumor metastasis.
Joan Seoane
Joan Seoane is a Spanish cancer biologist and ICREA Research Professor who leads research on TGF-β signaling, glioblastoma, and brain metastasis at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.
John S. Condeelis
John S. Condeelis is a cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for intravital imaging of cancer metastasis and the TMEM doorway concept.
Judah Folkman
Judah Folkman was an American surgeon and physician-scientist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard who founded anti-angiogenesis, the idea that tumors depend on growing new blood vessels.
Julio A. Aguirre‐Ghiso
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso is a cancer biologist known for research on tumor dormancy, and founding director of the Cancer Dormancy Institute at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Keping Xie
Keping Xie is a pancreatic cancer researcher and professor at MD Anderson in Houston, known for a 1995 iNOS gene study and establishing KLF4's role in pancreatic carcinogenesis.
Kwangmeyung Kim
Kwangmeyung Kim (김광명) is a South Korean nanomedicine researcher known for glycol chitosan nanoparticles and cancer theranostics, and a Distinguished Professor at Ewha Womans University since 2022.
Lance A. Liotta
Lance A. Liotta, also known as Lance Liotta, is an American cancer researcher and bioengineer who co-invented Laser Capture Microdissection and directs George Mason University's proteomics center.
Li Ma
Li Ma is a cancer researcher and professor of experimental radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for showing that a single microRNA, miR-10b, can initiate breast cancer invasion and metastasis.
Liliana Ossowski
Liliana Ossowski is a cancer researcher and Professor Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for studies of tumor invasion, metastasis, and dormancy.
Lilly Bourguignon
Lilly Y. W. Bourguignon is a cancer biologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for her work on hyaluronan–CD44 signaling in cancer.
Lynn M. Matrisian
Lynn M. Matrisian is an American cancer biologist known for her work on matrix metalloproteinases in tumor growth, founding Vanderbilt's Department of Cancer Biology, and later leading research at PanCAN.
Mark W. Dewhirst
Mark W. Dewhirst is an American cancer researcher and veterinary oncologist at Duke University Medical Center known for work on tumor hypoxia, HIF-1 signaling, and hyperthermia.
Michael Klagsbrun
Michael Klagsbrun was a Harvard Medical School professor and tumor angiogenesis researcher at Boston Children's Hospital who purified the first angiogenesis stimulator, basic fibroblast growth factor.
Michele De Palma
Michele De Palma is an Italian cancer biologist and tenured associate professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for discovering Tie2-expressing monocytes and engineering dendritic cell cancer therapies.
Mina Bissell
Mina Bissell is an Iranian-born biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that a cell's microenvironment helps determine whether it becomes cancerous, proposing the dynamic reciprocity model.