Michael Gnant, MD, FACS, FEBS

Professor of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center,
Medical University of Vienna President, Austrian Breast & Colorectal
Cancer Study Group Vienna, Austria

Dr. Michael Gnant is a Full Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, where he also serves as President of the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group. He has co-chaired and hosted the renowned St Gallen International Consensus Panel for Early Breast Cancer in Vienna since 2015.

Dr. Gnant graduated in medicine in Vienna (1988) and subsequently specialized in surgery (1994) and surgical oncology. He also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA (1997–1999).

Dr. Gnant’s research interests include several fields of surgical oncology, in particular breast and pancreatic cancer, immunotherapy, bone-targeted treatment for tumour micrometastases, tumor dormancy/quiescence and late relapse, pathway-directed therapies such as mTOR and CDK4/6 inhibition, SERDs. He has been the Principal Investigator of many (N>30) clinical trials in these fields.

The author of more than 600 original peer-reviewed papers with an impact factor of 4,800 and an h-index of 90, Dr Gnant has presented over 1,000 lectures at national and international meetings. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the prestigious Claudia von Schilling Prize from the Medical University of Hannover, the Umberto Veronesi Lecture Award of Breast Surgery International, and a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He holds an honorary MD degree of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and Honorary/Visiting Professorships of Tianjin Medical University, Jiaotong University Xi’an, and Nanjing Medical University in China. Repeatedly in recent years, he was among the most highly cited scientists worldwide.

Dr. Gnant is involved in many scientific societies, including ASCO, AACR, ACS, Breast International Group (BIG), EORTC, ESSO, EUSOMA, and UICC. He served as an executive board member of BIG, is an independent reviewer and IDMC member for the EORTC, UICC and other international bodies, and is a scientific reviewer and process evaluator for the European Union. Dr. Gnant is also Editor-in-Chief of BREAST CARE and an editorial board member and reviewer for many top-tier peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Annals of Oncology.