Giants of Cancer Care® Program Inductees

Gynecologic Cancer

Robert F. Ozols, MD, PhD

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Emeritus)

Ozols was the first Audrey Weg Schaus and Geoffrey Alan Weg Chair in Medical Science at Fox Chase Cancer Center, where he also served as senior vice president and chief clinical officer until his retirement in 2008
Ozols is recognized as a leader in chemotherapy research in ovarian cancer. Along with Robert C. Young, MD, the 2021 Giant of Cancer Care® in gynecologic cancer, Ozols contributed to the understanding of how tumors develop resistance, as well as strategies for overcoming such resistance.
He has developed new clinical approaches to treating patients with ovarian cancer, such as combination chemotherapy regimens of carboplatin and paclitaxel. He also developed pharmacologic techniques to reverse resistance in anticancer therapies.
Ozols also served as head of the Experimental Therapeutics Section of the Medicine Branch at the National Cancer Institute.
In 2012, he was recognized with the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Distinguished Achievement Award for his oncology leadership and achievements.

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