Joseph R. Bertino

Joseph Rocco Bertino (born August 16, 1930 in Port Chester , New York ) is an American oncologist at Rutgers University .

Bertino first attended Cornell University and earned an MD from the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in 1954 as a medical degree. He received his residency training at the University of Washington in the late 1950s . He then worked at Yale University , where he later received a professorship and became director of the Department of Oncology and Chemotherapy . In 1976 Bertino spent a sabbatical with Robert T. Schimke at Stanford University .

Bertino is considered a representative of translational research . He primarily treats patients with lymphoma and leukemia and did research into the effects of chemotherapeutic agents (especially methotrexate ), the development of resistance in cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents and the overcoming of these resistances. He is also active in stem cell research . He is the author of more than 400 scientific publications and was the founding editor of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and is the founding editor of Hem / Onc Today .

Bertino was president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in 1975 , which presented him with its Karnofsky Award in 1992 . In 1995/96 he was President of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), whose AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research he received in 2018.

Bertino was married and his wife died in 2011. The couple had four children.

literature

Joseph R. Bertino, MD and Physician Profile at Cancer Institute of New Jersey (cinj.org)

personal data
SURNAME	Bertino, Joseph R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bertino, Joseph; Bertino, Joseph Rocco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Port Chester , New York