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Richard George Pestell


Richard George Pestell

Pennsylvania Cancer and Regenerative Medicine Research Center, USA

Biography

Richard George Pestell completed his MBBS and subsequently PhD, MD (Melbourne University) FRACP, FACP, MBA (NYU) with Post Doctoral studies at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. He was Director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (2002-2005), the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (2005-2015) and most recently Executive Vice President of Thomas Jefferson University. He is the author of over 620 published works and 36 books and chapters, with over 50,000 citations, H index 121. He served and or serves on 14 scientific journal editorial boards, external advisory boards of 7 NCI cancer centers, several international research institutes, and review boards for research funding agencies of USA, Italy, UK, Switzerland, Ireland, France, Israel, Australia, and Czech. He is the Founder of two biotechnology companies, and has multiple issued patents.

Abstract

Abstract : CCR5 governs stem cell characteristics, therapy resistance and metastasis of breast cancer