Gevorg Tamamyan

Gevorg Tamamyan is an Armenian pediatric oncologist and hematologist. He is a professor and chairman of the Department of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology at Yerevan State Medical University, CEO of the Immune Oncology Research Institute, and editor-in-chief of OncoDaily.

Career
He obtained MD, Ph.D., and DSc degrees from the Yerevan State Medical University, an MSc degree in oncology from the University of Ulm, and completed a postdoc in leukemia at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA) and a postgraduate program at the Harvard Medical School (USA).

He is the President-Elect of the Pediatric Oncology East and Mediterranean (POEM) Group, a cooperative group of 110 pediatric cancer centers from 28 countries, and chairman of the Board of the Institute of Cancer and Crisis.

He was the chairman of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) IDEA steering group, co-founder of the Institute of Cancer and Crisis, the Armenian Association of Hematology and Oncology, the 4090 Foundation, co-founder and a board member of the City of Smile Charitable Foundation. He was the 2018-2019 President of the Harvard Club of Armenia.

Awards and honors

 * IDEA Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology (2013)
 * LIFE Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology (2014)
 * Young Leader, Union for International Cancer Control (2016)
 * 40 Under 40 in Cancer Award (2022)
 * ASCO Leadership Development Program (2022)