Oncolix - Advisors

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Advisors

George Peoples, Jr., MD, FACS.

Dr. Peoples graduated from West Point in 1984 and from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1988. After a surgical internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), he completed his surgical training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA in 1996. During that time, Dr. Peoples also completed a research fellowship at the Laboratory of Biologic Cancer Therapy at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Peoples completed a surgical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX in 1998. He was the previous Chief, Surgical Oncology at WRAMC from 1998-2006 and now serves in that role at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Cancer Vaccine Development Program associated with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Deputy Director of the United States Military Cancer Institute.

Dr. Peoples holds 7 patents and 5 INDs and is currently the PI on 7 cancer vaccine clinical trials being conducted at 12 military and civilian sites. He has written extensively on the immune response to cancer.

Anil K. Sood, MD

Dr. Sood is Professor and Director of the Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program in the Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. His research is focused in three main areas: 1) development of new strategies for systemic in vivo siRNA delivery using biocompatible nanoparticles; 2) effect of neuroendocrine stress hormones on ovarian cancer growth and progression; and 3) development of novel anti-vascular therapeutic approaches. Dr. Sood has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and has authored and co-authored several book chapters. Dr. Sood has received major recognition for his research accomplishments including the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation/Margaret Greenfield/Carmel Cohen, M.D. "Excellence in Ovarian Cancer Research Award".

Dr. Sood received his MD in 1991 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. He is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology.

Dr. Sood received his MD in 1991 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. He is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology.