# Instituto Alexander Fleming

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## TL;DR

The Instituto Alexander Fleming in Buenos Aires, founded in 1994, is Argentina's most research-active cancer centre; it has enrolled Argentine patients in the pivotal HER2, CDK4/6, lung and colorectal trials of the last three decades and hosts the GAICO cooperative group.

## Summary

The Instituto Alexander Fleming was founded in Buenos Aires in 1994 as a dedicated cancer institute by a group of oncologists including Reinaldo Chacón, and has become Argentina's most research-active cancer centre, with medical, surgical and radiation oncology, haematology, nuclear medicine and a large clinical research department that has enrolled Argentine patients in pivotal breast (HER2, CDK4/6), lung and colorectal cancer trials of the last three decades. It hosts the Grupo Argentino de Investigación Clínica en Oncología (GAICO) and links with the Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, offers a fellowship programme and tumour banking, and was an early adopter in Argentina of precision oncology and next-generation sequencing.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: IAF; Fleming
- City: Buenos Aires, AR
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://www.alexanderfleming.org

## Sources

- Instituto Alexander Fleming: https://www.alexanderfleming.org

## Connected records

- cancers: [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [HER2-positive breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-her2-positive/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/)
- fronts: [Targeted Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/targeted-therapy/)
- technologies: [Comprehensive genomic profiling](https://onco.cc/technologies/cgp/)
- targets: [CDK4/6](https://onco.cc/targets/cdk4-6/), [HER2](https://onco.cc/targets/her2/)
- drugs: [Palbociclib](https://onco.cc/drugs/palbociclib/), [Trastuzumab](https://onco.cc/drugs/trastuzumab/)
- people: [Bernardo Rubinstein](https://onco.cc/people/bernardo-rubinstein/)
- institutions: [Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires](https://onco.cc/institutions/hospital-italiano-buenos-aires/), [Instituto de Oncología Ángel H. Roffo](https://onco.cc/institutions/instituto-roffo/), [Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (Argentina)](https://onco.cc/institutions/inc-argentina/)

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