Yuman Fong

Yuman Fong is an American surgeon and scientist. He holds the Sangiacomo Chair in surgical oncology and is chairman of the department of surgery at the City of Hope Cancer Center. His early research was on immune activation during cancer or infection.

Fong's group is working on cell culture and cell-based production of biologics with the goal of making gene therapies, cell therapies, and vaccines affordable and accessible to all.

He served as the Chair of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) of the National Institutes of Health. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Therapy Oncolytics (Cell Press, journal of ASGCT). He is a member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

He has co-authored over 1000 articles and 17 textbooks. ''PLOS Biology'' recognized Fong in 2019 as one of the most-cited researchers in the world. Fong has been ranked by Google Scholar as one of the top 1000 most-cited researchers. He has the number-one-cited paper in the history of the American Surgical Association. He is editor of the Springer textbook on ''Image-guided Therapies'' and ''The SAGES Atlas in Robotic Surgery''. Provided by Wikipedia