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Pediatric and adolescent oncology

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A. Thomas Look

A. Thomas Look is a physician-scientist in pediatric cancer genetics known for defining the chromosomal basis of childhood acute leukemia and pioneering zebrafish models of human cancer.

Anna T. Meadows

Anna T. Meadows is an American pediatric oncologist who spent 40 years at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and founded the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship.

Brigitte C. Widemann

Brigitte C. Widemann is a German-trained pediatric oncologist who is Chief of the Pediatric Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute, known for developing selumetinib for NF1.

Daniel M. Green

Daniel M. Green is an American pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose research focuses on fertility and other late effects of childhood cancer treatment.

David G. Poplack

David G. Poplack is a pediatric oncologist known for childhood leukemia research and for leading Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center in Houston for 25 years.

David Wade Clapp

David Wade Clapp is an American neonatologist and physician-scientist who chairs Pediatrics at Indiana University, leads Riley Hospital for Children, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Donald Pinkel

Donald Pinkel (1926–2022) was an American pediatrician and cancer researcher who, as first director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, created Total Therapy for childhood leukemia.

G. Denman Hammond

G. Denman Hammond was an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles whose leadership of the Children's Cancer Group from 1968 to 1992 improved childhood leukemia survival.

Gaston K. Rivera

Gaston K. Rivera is a pediatric hematology-oncology researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose 1986 relapse study and 1991 reinforced-early-treatment trial shaped childhood ALL therapy.

Gregory T. Armstrong

Gregory T. Armstrong, known as Greg Armstrong, is an American pediatric oncologist and epidemiologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, principal investigator of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

Holcombe E. Grier

Holcombe E. Grier is an American pediatric oncologist and Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, based at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for Ewing sarcoma trials and end-of-life care.

Ian F. Pollack

Ian F. Pollack, also known as Ian Pollack, is a pediatric neurosurgeon at the University of Pittsburgh who led the Children's Oncology Group CNS Tumor Committee from 1999 to 2009.

Irwin D. Bernstein

Irwin D. Bernstein is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and professor at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle whose antibody research produced the FDA-approved leukemia drug gemtuzumab ozogamicin.

John H. Kersey

John H. Kersey (1938–2013) was an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of Minnesota; in 1975 he led the world's first successful bone marrow transplant for lymphoma.

John M. Maris

John M. Maris is an American pediatric oncologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia whose laboratory discovered the genetic basis of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma, including the ALK gene.

Joseph P. Neglia

Joseph P. Neglia, also published as Joseph Neglia, is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of Minnesota known for defining second-cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors.

Kai Tan

Kai Tan is a computational and systems biologist who studies blood formation and childhood cancer, directing the Center for Single Cell Biology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Katherine K. Matthay

Katherine K. Matthay is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at UCSF who led the landmark CCG-3891 neuroblastoma trial, co-authored the INRG classification, and founded the NANT consortium.

Kevin C. Oeffinger

Kevin C. Oeffinger is an American family physician and cancer survivorship researcher, professor at the Duke Cancer Institute and founding director of its Center for Onco-Primary Care.

Kevin Shannon

Kevin M. Shannon is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for showing that the NF1 gene acts as a tumor suppressor in childhood myeloid leukemia.

Kimberly Stegmaier

Kimberly Stegmaier is an American pediatric oncologist and cancer biologist who chairs pediatric oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and studies therapeutic targets in childhood leukemias and solid tumors.

Leslie L. Robison

Leslie L. Robison is an American cancer epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and led the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

Marcel Kool

Marcel Kool is a pediatric neurooncology and cancer genomics researcher who leads research groups at the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg and the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht.

Martin Schrappe

Martin Schrappe is a German pediatric oncologist known for risk-adapted trials in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chairing the International BFM Study Group from 2001 to 2016.

Melissa M. Hudson

Melissa M. Hudson is a pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who directs its Cancer Survivorship Division and studies long-term outcomes of childhood cancer survivors.

Michael P. Link

Michael P. Link is an American pediatric oncologist at Stanford University whose 1986 osteosarcoma and lymphoma trials transformed childhood cancer treatment; he was ASCO's first pediatric oncologist president.

Naomi Taylor

Naomi Taylor is an American immunologist and cancer researcher who leads a National Cancer Institute group studying CAR T cells and T cell metabolism for pediatric cancers.

Philip A. Pizzo

Philip A. Pizzo, also known as Philip Pizzo, is an American pediatric oncologist known for defining fever management in children with cancer and for leading Stanford's medical school.

Poul H. Sorensen

Poul H. Sorensen is a Danish-born physician-scientist and pathologist at the University of British Columbia whose lab discovered cancer gene fusions, including NTRK fusions, in childhood cancers.

Rob Pieters

Rob Pieters is a Dutch pediatric oncologist at the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, known for drug resistance research and Interfant trials in infant leukemia.