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Researchers in cancer biology and oncology research

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Galina Selivanova

Galina Selivanova is a Swedish-based cancer researcher and professor at Karolinska Institutet, a pioneer of p53 research known for showing that mutant p53 can be restored by small molecules.

Gang Zheng

Gang Zheng is a medical biophysicist and nanomedicine researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, known for porphysome nanotechnology for cancer imaging and treatment.

Gary K. Schwartz

Gary K. Schwartz, also known as Gary Schwartz, is an American medical oncologist who directs the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University, specializing in sarcoma and melanoma drug development.

Gary Lyman

Gary H. Lyman is an American medical oncologist and epidemiologist who co-directs the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research and chaired ASCO guidelines on neutropenia and thrombosis.

Gary M. Clark

Gary M. Clark is an American biostatistician known for identifying prognostic factors in breast cancer, including a 1989 New England Journal of Medicine study using DNA flow cytometry.

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.

Gennaro Ciliberto

Gennaro Ciliberto is an Italian molecular oncologist known for interleukin-6 engineering and cancer immunotherapy, who directed the Pascale institute in Naples and the Regina Elena institute in Rome until 2025.

Geoffrey I. Shapiro

Geoffrey I. Shapiro is a physician-scientist in medical oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and a Harvard Medical School professor who leads early-phase anticancer 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 D. Demetri

George D. Demetri is an American medical oncologist who directs the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and developed kinase-inhibitor therapies for gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

George F. Vande Woude

George F. Vande Woude (1935–2021) was an American molecular oncologist who discovered the human MET oncogene in 1984 and led research at the National Cancer Institute.

George Fountzilas

George Fountzilas is a Greek medical oncologist at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki who led HeCOG phase III trials in head and neck and breast cancer from the 1980s onward.

George Klein (cancer biologist)

George Klein, born Georg Klein (1925–2016), was a Hungarian-born Swedish cancer biologist at Karolinska Institutet who pioneered tumor immunology and linked Burkitt lymphoma to Epstein-Barr virus.

George P. Browman

George P. Browman is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical epidemiologist known for head and neck cancer research and for founding Cancer Care Ontario's Program in Evidence-Based Care.

George P. Canellos

George P. Canellos is an American medical oncologist known for combination chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, first at the National Cancer Institute and then as founding chief of medical oncology at Dana-Farber.

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.

Georgina V. Long

Georgina V. Long is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher, Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia and a professor at the University of Sydney, named 2024 Australian of the Year.

Gerald N. Wogan

Gerald N. Wogan (1930–2021) was an MIT toxicologist who established aflatoxin, a mold-produced food contaminant, as a cause of liver cancer and shaped FDA aflatoxin limits.

Gérard Orth

Gérard Orth (1936–2023) was a French virologist and veterinarian at the Institut Pasteur who pioneered HPV cancer research and discovered the first human genes underlying warts.

Gerhard Christofori

Gerhard Christofori is a molecular and cancer biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Basel, known for showing that E-cadherin loss drives malignant progression and metastasis.

Gerhardt Attard

Gerhardt Attard is a medical oncologist, Professor at University College London, and Director of the UCL Cancer Institute since 2024, known for circulating tumor DNA research and abiraterone development in advanced prostate cancer.

Gerold Bepler

Gerold Bepler is a German-educated thoracic oncologist specializing in lung cancer, known for research on RRM1 and ERCC1 as biomarkers for non-small-cell lung cancer treatment.

Ghassan K. Abou‐Alfa

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who specializes in primary liver cancer and led the CELESTIAL cabozantinib trial.

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.

Gianpietro Dotti

Gianpietro Dotti is an Italian-trained physician-scientist who directs the immunotherapy program at UNC Lineberger, where his research engineers CAR T cells to treat lymphoma and solid tumors.

Giao Q. Phan

Giao Q. Phan is a surgical oncologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher whose 2003 study reported complete melanoma regressions from CTLA-4 blockade, cited by the 2018 Nobel Committee.

Gideon Rechavi

Gideon Rechavi (Hebrew: גדעון רכאבי) is an Israeli physician-scientist in cancer genomics who heads the Sheba Cancer Research Center and won the 2020 Israel Prize.

Gilles Thomas (French geneticist)

Gilles Thomas was a French geneticist and cancer researcher who helped found cancer genetics in France, directing work that identified genes for Ewing sarcoma and Crohn's disease; he died in 2013.

Giorgio V. Scagliotti

Giorgio V. Scagliotti is an Italian medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, Full Professor at the University of Turin and IASLC President from 2017 to 2019.

Giovanna Tosato

Giovanna Tosato is an American-based physician-scientist studying virus-associated cancer and blood vessel growth, a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute since 1999 after directing an FDA division.