Gideon Blumenthal

Company: & Supervisory Associate Director for Precision Oncology, FDA

Job title: Deputy Office Director of the Oncology Center of Excellence

Bio:

Gideon M. Blumenthal, M.D. is Deputy Office Director of the Oncology Center of Excellence, FDA and Supervisory Associate Director for Precision Oncology in the FDA Oncology of Hematology Oncology Products. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hematology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St Louis and his medical degree from University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at University of Maryland, followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Blumenthal previously worked as a medical officer, and clinical team leader in thoracic oncology and head and neck cancer. He was an associate investigator on early phase clinical trials in the thoracic malignancy branch of the NCI.  In 2018, he was awarded the Public Service Award from the American Society for Clinical Oncology.