Prof. Guru P. Sonpavde AdventHealth Cancer Institute, USA

Guru P. Sonpavde, MD is the Director of Genitourinary (GU) Oncology and Phase I Research as well as the Christopher K. Glanz Chair for Bladder Cancer Research at the AdventHealth Cancer Institute, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. Previously, he was Bladder Cancer... read moreDirector at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2017-2022, GU Oncology Director and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2012 to 2017 and practiced from 2004 to 2012 at Texas Oncology, a US Oncology affiliate. His focus is drug development (including early development Phase I clinical trials and later Phase II/III trials) evaluating novel and emerging classes of treatments across solid tumors and clinical/translational research to cure GU cancers with a focus on bladder cancer. He serves on the steering committees of several pivotal phase III trials evaluating treatments for bladder cancer. His research efforts have led to >500 publications including multiple papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and a citation in TIME magazine.