ÂÜÀòÂÒÂ×

Alfred I. Neugut, MD, Ph.D., is Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia University, and Director of Global Oncology Research for the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia.

Dr. Neugut is a medical oncologist with a particular interest in gastrointestinal tract cancers, especially colorectal and gastric cancers. Under the auspices of Columbia’s Medical Scientist Training Program, he received his MD and a Ph.D. in Pathobiology in 1977. His Ph.D. was in the laboratory of Dr. I. Bernard Weinstein, an authority in chemical carcinogenesis, and he studied the growth control of cancer cells in vitro. He then trained in Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and had a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.