George Canellos

Dana Farber Cancer Institute, United States of America

George P. Canellos M.D

Academic positions: - William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School - Chief of DFCI's Division of Medical Oncology, emeritus - Medical director for network development for Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, emeritus - Senior Physician, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

All commercial positions (in last five years): None declared

Research interests: Dr Canellos' research interests span a broad area of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents as well as biological agents for the treatment of malignant diseases, with particular interest in malignant lymphoma.

Any other information: - Former Chair of the Lymphoma Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, a national cooperative trials group - Co-editor of the textbook, The Lymphomas - Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (1988-2001). Dr Canellos has received numerous awards for his research including:- - San Salvatore Foundation Award at the 9th International Conference on Lymphoma., 2005 - Key to the Cure Award, The Cure for Lymphoma Foundation, 1999 - Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Athens, Greece, 1997 - Distinguished Service Award for Scientific Achievement, American Society of Clinical Oncology, 1996

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Head of Faculty: Oncology (since 16 November 2005)

George Canellos is a Head of Faculty for the ONCOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Head of Faculty is to help divide the Faculty (specialty) into Sections (sub-specialty areas), nominate leaders in those areas as Section Heads, and offer ongoing advice on the strategic direction of the service. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.