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Aditya Bardia

Aditya Bardia is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer therapeutics, especially antibody–drug conjugates, and a professor and breast oncology program director at UCLA since 2024.

Alfredo Berruti

Alfredo Berruti is an Italian medical oncologist, full professor at the University of Brescia and chief of medical oncology at Spedali Civili Hospital, known for adrenocortical carcinoma research.

Amit M. Oza

Amit M. Oza, also cited as Amit Oza, is a medical oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto who runs clinical trials in gynecologic cancers, especially ovarian cancer.

Andreas du Bois

Andreas du Bois is a German gynecologic oncologist who founded the AGO Study Group in 1993 and led landmark ovarian cancer trials including LION and DESKTOP III.

Ann H. Partridge

Ann H. Partridge is an American medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a Harvard professor known for research on breast cancer in young women.

Ariel Rösler

Ariel Rösler is an Israeli endocrinologist at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, known for steroid biosynthesis research and a 1998 GnRH-analog treatment for paraphilia.

Aron Goldhirsch

Aron Goldhirsch (1946–2020) was a medical oncologist who specialized in breast cancer, working at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and co-founding the Breast International Group in 1996.

Bradley J. Monk

Bradley J. Monk is an American gynecologic oncologist whose trials of bevacizumab, PARP inhibitors, and immunotherapy in cervical and ovarian cancer have been described as practice-changing.

Carlos L. Arteaga

Carlos L. Arteaga is an American medical oncologist and breast cancer drug resistance researcher who directs the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern in Dallas since 2017.

Charles E. Geyer

Charles E. Geyer is an American oncologist, Chief Scientific Officer of the NSABP Foundation and chief of medical oncology at UPMC Hillman, known for the KATHERINE and OlympiA breast cancer trials.

Charles L. Loprinzi

Charles L. Loprinzi is an American medical oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for hot-flash trials and the 2016 olanzapine antiemetic study that changed chemotherapy nausea guidelines.

Christoph Zielinski

Christoph Zielinski is an Austrian medical oncologist who led clinical oncology at the Medical University of Vienna from 2001 to 2017 and founded the Central European Cooperative Oncology Group.

Clifford A. Hudis

Clifford A. Hudis is an American medical oncologist who led breast cancer care at Memorial Sloan Kettering and has been chief executive of ASCO since 2016.

Cristiana Sessa

Cristiana Sessa is a Swiss-based medical oncologist specializing in gynecologic cancers, known for European guidelines on ovarian cancer and early-phase new-drug development at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland.

David S. Alberts

David S. Alberts, also known as David Alberts, was an American oncologist at the University of Arizona whose 1996 trial established intraperitoneal cisplatin for advanced ovarian cancer.

Edith A. Perez

Edith A. Perez is an American oncologist and breast cancer researcher who led the NCCTG N9831 adjuvant trastuzumab trial and spent two decades at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

Elisabeth G.E. de Vries

Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, known as Liesbeth de Vries, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at the University Medical Center Groningen who pioneered cancer drug imaging.

Eric P. Winer

Eric P. Winer is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer who became Director of Yale Cancer Center and Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital in 2022.

Éric Pujade-Lauraine

Éric Pujade-Lauraine is a French gynecologic oncologist and professor of medical oncology who heads the Women Cancer department at Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and founded the GINECO trial group.

Fátima Cardoso

Fátima Cardoso is a Portuguese medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, known for leading the MINDACT trial and creating Portugal's first certified Breast Unit in Lisbon.

Franco M. Muggia

Franco M. Muggia (1936–2021) was an Italian-born American medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute and NYU, known for the dexrazoxane cardioprotection trial and ovarian cancer therapeutics.

Frédéric Amant

Frédéric Amant (born 1967) is a Belgian gynecologic oncologist who heads Gynecological Oncology at KU Leuven and founded INCIP, showing chemotherapy during pregnancy can be safe.

Gabriel N. Hortobágyi

Gabriel N. Hortobágyi is a breast medical oncologist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he has served on the faculty since 1971 and led major breast cancer drug trials.

George Coukos

George Coukos is a physician-scientist in tumor immunology and cellular immunotherapy who discovered spontaneous antitumor immunity in ovarian cancer and directs the Ludwig Laboratory for Cell Therapy at Weill Cornell Medicine.

George W. Sledge

George W. Sledge is an American medical oncologist who spent 30 years at Indiana University, led the TAILORx and MONARCH 2 breast cancer trials, and served as ASCO president.

Gianni Bonadonna

Gianni Bonadonna (1934–2015) was an Italian medical oncologist at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan who designed the CMF breast cancer and ABVD Hodgkin lymphoma regimens.

Giuseppe Curigliano

Giuseppe Curigliano is an Italian medical oncologist who leads early drug development at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and specializes in breast cancer.

Harold J. Burstein

Harold J. Burstein is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and a Dana-Farber clinician known for NEJM reviews and treatment guidelines.

Hope S. Rugo

Hope S. Rugo is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, known for the phase 3 CAPItello-291 and ASCENT trials and, since 2025, chief of breast medical oncology at City of Hope.

Ian E. Krop

Ian E. Krop is an American medical oncologist and breast cancer drug-development researcher who joined Yale Cancer Center in 2022 after 16 years at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.