Professor Antonio (Tito) Fojo

Tito Fojo is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, New York. Before, as a Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), he established a highly successful translational clinical program that began by exploring agents to reverse resistance to anticancer medicines, facilitating translational research focused on new therapies for patients with endocrine and neuroendocrine cancers. He served as Program Director for the Medical Oncology Fellowship Program at the NCI, the largest fellowship program in the National Institute of Health and one of the largest medical oncology programs in the United States. Over the years Dr. Fojo has helped to train more than 350 medical oncologists. He has written extensively about the design, conduct and interpretation of oncology clinical trials, the cost of cancer therapeutics, the magnitude of the problem and how this might be addressed.