# OnCo record robert-ferris (person). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/people/robert-ferris/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "robert-ferris" ;
  schema:name "Robert L. Ferris"@en ;
  schema:description "Surgeon and immunologist who led CheckMate 141, the trial that made nivolumab the first drug to lengthen survival in head and neck cancer after platinum failure, and E3311 on transoral surgery for HPV-positive throat cancer."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/robert-ferris/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-18"^^xsd:date ;
  onco:tag "head-and-neck", "immunotherapy", "surgery", "trialist" ;
  schema:jobTitle "Head and neck surgeon and Director, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/recurrent-metastatic-hnscc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/hpv-positive-oropharyngeal-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/oropharyngeal-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/unc-lineberger/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-e3311-transoral-surgery-ferris-jco-2022/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-checkmate-141-ferris-nejm-2016/> ;
  schema:affiliation <https://onco.cc/institutions/unc-lineberger/> .