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Biography
José Baselga, MD, PhD., is a Spanish medical oncologist and researcher focused on the development of novel molecular targeted agents, with a special emphasis in breast cancer. Baselga serves as Physician-in-Chief at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Education and career
Baselga received his MD and PhD degrees from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1982. He completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and subsequently stayed on as a faculty member of the Breast Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
From 1996 to 2010, Baselga was the Chairman of the Medical Oncology Service and Founding Director of the recently established Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona. From 2010 to 2012, he was the chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and associate director of the MGH Cancer Center in Massachusetts.
He is one of the principal investigators of the Stand Up to Cancer "Dream Team" for "Targeting the PI3K Pathway in Women’s Cancers". He has been involved in the development of several targeted drugs for cancer including cetuximab, pertuzumab, trastuzumab and lapatinib.
He was appointed Physician-in-chief at MSK in 2012 and was appointed a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in 2013.
Awards and honors
In 2014, he was inducted into the Spanish Royal Academy of Pharmacy Baselga was elected President of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2014-5.