John F Seymour Editor

Owen A. O’Connor, M.D., Ph.D. is an American Cancer Society Research Professor at the University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center. He completed his training in Internal Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital at Weill Cornell University Medical School, a Fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Weill Cornell. He has been recognized as one of the Top Physicians in Cancer in the U.S. and is recognized by the Irish Government as one of the top 50 Irish Americans in Science and Medicine.

Stephen M. Ansell, M.D., Ph.D. is the Dorotha W. and Grant L. Sundquist Professor of Hematologic Malignancies Research and the Chair of the Division of Hematology at Mayo Clinic. He received his medical degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and then completed a fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at Mayo Clinic. His research focuses on optimizing antitumor immune function in B-cell malignancies. He received the Ernst Beutler Award from the American Society of Hematology in 2021 in recognition of his work.

John F. Seymour MBBS Ph.D. heads the Department of Haematology of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He completed a translational research fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and has received their Distinguished Alumnus award. His work is focused on new drug development in lymphoid malignancies. He was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia, and elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences for his contributions to the field.