Information about the doctor
Professor Dr.med., Head of the Clinic of Oncology, Hematology and Palliative Medicine Aristotelis Giagounidis, is in the TOP list of the best German oncologists and specialists in lung tumor therapy according to the results by the annual survey of public and journalistic magazine “FOCUS”.
Aristoteles Giagounidis
Professor, MD, PhD
Head of the Clinic for Oncology, Hematology, and Palliative Medicine
Key Achievements
- Recognized as one of the top oncologists in Germany for leukemia and lymphoma (source: “Good Doctors for Me” publication)
- Listed among leading oncologists in Germany for lung cancer therapy (source: Focus magazine)
Main Research Areas
- Research Focus
- Novel approaches to treating myelodysplastic syndromes
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Immune thrombocytopenia
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Chronic myeloid leukemia
- Colorectal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Professional Society Memberships
- German Society of Hematology and Oncology
- American Society of Hematology
- Scientific Advisory Board, Aplastic Anemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation, Rockville, MD, USA
- Scientific Consultancy
- AMGEN Corp.
- Novartis SpA
- Celgene Corp.
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Johnson & Johnson
- Regulatory and Oversight Activities
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Nov 30 – Dec 4, 2005)
- European Medicines Agency (May 30 – June 2, 2006)
- Oversight of clinical trials, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Jan 13, 2010)
- Publications and Editorial Work
- Over 100 publications in books and medical journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Member of the editorial board of Journal of Clinical Oncology (2013–2016), the official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)