Prof Nir Peled
- Director of the Cancer Center
- Ben-Gurion University
- Israel
Biography:
Prof. Nir Peled, MD, PhD, FCCP is the Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. He is a pulmonologist and medical oncologist. Prof. Peled is the Director of the Cancer Center at Soroka Medical Center. Previously he was the head of the Thoracic Cancer Unit and the Center for Precision Cancer Care at Davidoff Cancer Center at Rabin Medical Center. In addition, Prof. Peled is the head of the Thoracic Oncology Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the Chair of the Early Detection & Prevention Committee of the IASLC. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology (IASLC), the Journal of Global Oncology [the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)] and the Framingham program in Immuno-Oncology. Prof. Peled focuses on the wide clinical and translational perspectives of lung cancer and studies specifically the biomarkers of lung cancer, personalized based medicine in lung cancer and immuno-oncology.