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Lili Yang
Lili Yang is an immunologist and professor of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at UCLA who trained under David Baltimore at Caltech and develops off-the-shelf CAR-NKT cell cancer immunotherapies from engineered blood stem cells.
Lloyd W. Law
Lloyd W. Law (1910–2002) was an American immunologist and cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, whose mouse leukemia studies laid the foundation for combination chemotherapy.
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi, born 1980, is a cell biologist and cancer researcher known for work on cell death, autophagy, and tumor immunology, and editor-in-chief of OncoImmunology.
Madhav V. Dhodapkar
Madhav V. Dhodapkar is an American hematologist-oncologist and cancer immunologist who studies how the immune system controls progression of premalignant plasma cell disorders to multiple myeloma.
Malcolm K. Brenner
Malcolm K. Brenner is a British-born American physician-scientist in tumor immunology, known for CAR T cell therapy, gene-marked transplantation, and leading the Houston Methodist Center for Cell and Gene Therapy.
Marcela V. Maus
Marcela Maus is a physician-scientist who directs the Cellular Immunotherapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and develops CAR T cell therapies for solid tumors, especially glioblastoma.
Mariano Provencio
Mariano Provencio Pulla is a Spanish medical oncologist, head of Medical Oncology at Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, known for the NADIM lung cancer trials.
Mark M. Awad
Mark M. Awad, known professionally as Mark Awad, is a thoracic medical oncologist and chief of the Thoracic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Mark Smyth
Mark J. Smyth, born 1963 in Hobart, is an Australian immunologist known for cancer immunosurveillance and NK cell biology, who resigned from QIMR Berghofer in 2021 after misconduct findings.
Marlies Meisel
Marlies Meisel is an Austrian-trained cellular immunologist and microbiome researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, known for showing that bacteria inside tumors can change how cancer immunotherapy works.
Martin A. Cheever
Martin A. Cheever was an American oncologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who founded the Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network.
Martin Reck
Martin Reck (M. Reck) is a German medical oncologist who heads thoracic oncology and clinical trials at LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Germany, and is known for lung cancer immunotherapy research.
Massimiliano Mazzone
Massimiliano Mazzone is an Italian tumor immunologist and full professor at KU Leuven who heads the Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology in Belgium.
Matthew D. Galsky
Matthew D. Galsky is an American medical oncologist at Mount Sinai specializing in bladder and other genitourinary cancers, leading phase 3 immunotherapy trials in urothelial carcinoma.
Matthew D. Hellmann
Matthew D. Hellmann is a medical oncologist and drug developer, formerly of Memorial Sloan Kettering, known as lead author of the CheckMate 227 lung cancer immunotherapy trial reports.
Michael A. Postow
Michael A. Postow is an American medical oncologist, Chief of the Melanoma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for leading the first randomized trial of nivolumab plus ipilimumab.
Michael B. Atkins
Michael B. Atkins is an American medical oncologist treating melanoma and kidney cancer, deputy director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and a leader in cancer immunotherapy.
Michael Platten
Michael Platten is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who leads brain tumor immunotherapy research at Heidelberg University, University Medicine Mannheim, and the German Cancer Research Center.
Mikaël J. Pittet
Mikaël J. Pittet, also published as Mikael Pittet, is an onco-immunologist at the University of Geneva who studies how myeloid immune cells control tumor growth.
Naiyer A Rizvi
Naiyer A Rizvi is a Canadian-trained American physician-scientist who led the CheckMate 063 trial behind nivolumab's lung cancer approval and served as Director of Thoracic Oncology at Columbia.
Nicholas Chiorazzi
Nicholas Chiorazzi is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for chronic lymphocytic leukemia research; he heads the Karches Center for CLL Research at the Feinstein Institutes, Northwell Health.
Nicholas P. Restifo
Nicholas P. Restifo is an American physician and immunologist known for developing cancer immunotherapies, leading anti-tumor T cell research at the National Cancer Institute for nearly three decades.
Nina Bhardwaj
Nina Bhardwaj is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.
Nir Hacohen
Nir Hacohen is an American immunologist who directs cancer immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is known for building single-cell maps of immune cells in tumors.
Oliver W. Press
Oliver W. Press was an American lymphoma physician-scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who pioneered antibody and CAR T-cell treatments and died in 2017.
Omid Hamid
Omid Hamid is an American medical oncologist and melanoma immunotherapy researcher at The Angeles Clinic and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, an investigator in early trials of ipilimumab and pembrolizumab.
Paola D Vermeer
Paola D Vermeer is an American cancer biologist who heads the Vermeer Lab at Sanford Research in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, studying how nerves recruited by tumors affect immunity.
Paolo A. Ascierto
Paolo A. Ascierto, also known as Paolo Antonio Ascierto, is an Italian medical oncologist who led melanoma and immunotherapy research at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Naples.
Patrick A. Baeuerle
Patrick A. Baeuerle is a German immunologist and cancer-drug developer known for discovering the NF-κB inhibitor IκB and for developing blinatumomab (Blincyto), the first bispecific T-cell engager approved for leukemia, in 2014.
Patrick A. Ott
Patrick A. Ott, also known as Patrick Alexander Ott, is a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who develops personalized neoantigen vaccines for melanoma.