Steven Libutti

Steven Kenneth Libutti is an American surgeon and scientist, born on April 18, 1964, who has combined clinical surgery with laboratory work on cancer. He trained at Harvard College and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, finished his surgical residency in New York in 1995, and then completed a fellowship in surgical oncology and endocrine surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He later led the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Cancer Care and, from 2017, directed the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, while serving as a professor of surgery. His research studies tumor angiogenesis and the tumor microenvironment, and the source describes him as one of the pioneers of regional and targeted cancer therapy. As a clinical surgeon he treats malignancies of the liver, pancreas and gastrointestinal tract and disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. He is a past president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons.