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Carla van Gils Bestuurder (Executive Director) of KWF Kankerbestrijding, jointly with Dorine Manson · KWF Dutch Cancer Society Cancer epidemiologist who co-leads KWF, the Dutch Cancer Society, the Netherlands' largest charitable funder of cancer research. | none | none | leadership, clinician-scientist, research-funding | ||
Harry J. de Koning Professor of Public Health and Screening Evaluation, Erasmus MC · Erasmus MC Cancer Institute Led the NELSON trial, which confirmed CT screening cuts lung cancer deaths in Europe and shaped screening policy. | Non-small-cell lung cancer, Prostate cancer | none | screening, lung | ||
Jack Cuzick Professor of Epidemiology, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London · Barts Cancer Institute / Barts Health NHS Trust Epidemiologist who led IBIS-I and IBIS-II, proving tamoxifen and anastrozole prevent breast cancer in high-risk women. | HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer, Cervical cancer | none | prevention, breast | ||
Mark Schiffman Senior Investigator, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute · National Cancer Institute (NIH) NCI epidemiologist whose HPV natural history studies underpin HPV-based cervical screening and risk-based management worldwide. | Cervical cancer | none | hpv, screening | ||
Michael Bretthauer Professor of Medicine, University of Oslo; Gastroenterologist, Oslo University Hospital · Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital Led NordICC, the first randomised trial of screening colonoscopy, which found smaller benefits than many expected. | Colorectal cancer | none | screening, colorectal | ||
Nubia Muñoz Emeritus Professor, National Cancer Institute of Colombia; former Chief of Field and Intervention Studies, IARC · Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (Colombia) Colombian epidemiologist whose IARC studies proved HPV causes cervical cancer and identified the types the vaccines target. | Cervical cancer | none | hpv, prevention, latin-america | ||
Rachel Ramoni Director, Division of Research · Kaiser Permanente Division of Research Director of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, one of the largest health-system research units in the United States. | none | none | leadership, health services research | ||
Sigurdur Y. Kristinsson Professor of Hematology, University of Iceland; Landspitali University Hospital · Landspítali, the National University Hospital of Iceland Leads iStopMM, which screened most of Iceland's adults for myeloma precursors to test whether early detection helps. | Multiple myeloma | none | myeloma, screening | ||
Sir Richard Peto Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Oxford · Oxford Cancer (Oxford University Hospitals and University of Oxford) Epidemiologist who quantified how smoking kills and invented the meta-analysis methods that established adjuvant cancer therapy. | Non-small-cell lung cancer, HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer | none | tobacco, meta-analysis |
