Richard Pestell
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Biography
Professor Pestell completed his MBBS and subsequently PhD, M.D., (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, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center 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 45,700 citations, H index 115. 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, has multiple issued patents and is a member of National Academy of Inventors (Jefferson Chapter).