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Nicholas C. Turner

Nicholas C. Turner is a British medical oncologist and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for the SERENA-6 and INAVO120 breast cancer trials.

Nikhil Wagle

Nikhil Wagle is an American physician-scientist in cancer genomics and precision oncology, a Harvard Medical School associate professor and breast medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Nikolaus Schultz

Nikolaus Schultz is a computational oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who co-leads cBioPortal and OncoKB, a precision oncology knowledge base partially recognized by the US FDA.

Pasi A. Jänne

Pasi A. Jänne is an American thoracic medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who co-discovered EGFR mutations that make lung tumors respond to targeted drugs.

Pierre Laurent‐Puig

Pierre Laurent-Puig is a French professor of oncology at Université Paris Cité who showed that KRAS mutations predict resistance to cetuximab in colorectal cancer and pioneered liquid-biopsy RAS testing.

Rafael Rosell

Rafael Rosell is a Spanish medical oncologist who has specialized in lung cancer since 1982 and led Europe's implementation of routine EGFR mutation testing for first-line treatment.

Razelle Kurzrock

Razelle Kurzrock is an oncologist and precision-medicine researcher who directs the Center for Precision Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and led the I-PREDICT and WINTHER trials.

Robert C. Doebele

Robert C. Doebele is an American thoracic oncologist who identified oncogenic NTRK1 fusions in lung cancer, led entrectinib trials, and co-founded Rain Therapeutics before joining Boundless Bio in 2025.

Ryan B. Corcoran

Ryan B. Corcoran is an American physician-scientist in gastrointestinal oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for targeted-therapy resistance in colorectal cancer and liquid biopsy.

Sohrab Shah

Sohrab P. Shah is a computational oncologist who studies how cancers evolve cell by cell, known for PyClone and single-cell studies of breast and ovarian cancer.

Stefan Fröhling

Stefan Fröhling is a German physician-scientist in hematology and medical oncology, Managing Director of NCT Heidelberg since 2020 and head of Translational Medical Oncology at the German Cancer Research Center.

Stefan Pfister

Stefan M. Pfister is a German pediatric neuro-oncologist and cancer genomicist who heads pediatric neurooncology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and won the 2023 Leibniz Prize.

Takayuki Yoshino

Takayuki Yoshino (吉野孝之) is a Japanese medical oncologist who leads the GALAXY ctDNA registry study within CIRCULATE-Japan and the GOZILA ctDNA-guided targeted therapy analysis, advancing precision oncology in colorectal cancer.

Thomas Hudson (geneticist)

Thomas J. Hudson is a Canadian genome scientist known for the first physical maps of the human genome, the HapMap Project, and founding the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

Thomas J. Lynch

Thomas J. Lynch is an American medical oncologist, president of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center since 2020, known for the 2004 EGFR mutation discovery in lung cancer.

Timothy Chan

Timothy A. Chan is a physician-scientist in cancer genomics and precision oncology at Cleveland Clinic, known for establishing tumor mutation burden as an immunotherapy biomarker.

Trever G. Bivona

Trever G. Bivona is an American physician-scientist and medical oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on how lung cancers resist targeted therapies.

Valsamo Anagnostou

Valsamo (Elsa) Anagnostou, Greek: Βαλσάμω Αναγνώστου, is a Greek physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who works on lung cancer genomics and liquid biopsies, chairing the ctDNA trial BR.36.

Vivek Subbiah

Vivek Subbiah is a medical oncologist who spent nearly 15 years at MD Anderson, leads early-phase precision oncology trials including LIBRETTO-001 and ROAR, and joined Stanford Cancer Institute in 2026.

Wadih Arap

Wadih Arap is a physician-scientist in genitourinary oncology who directs the Cancer Program at University Hospital Newark and is known for vascular ZIP codes, tissue-specific blood vessel signatures used for targeted drug delivery.

William Pao

William Pao (born 1967) is an American physician-scientist in thoracic oncology known for identifying EGFR mutations in never smokers' lung cancers and mechanisms of drug resistance.