# Ramaswamy Govindan

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## TL;DR

Showed how smoking-related lung cancers carry ten times the mutations of never-smokers' tumours.

## Summary

Ramaswamy Govindan holds the Anheuser-Busch Chair in Medical Oncology and is Director of the Section of Medical Oncology at Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University. He is a thoracic oncologist known for leading the genomic characterisation of lung cancer in smokers and never-smokers, showing that smoking-related tumours carry ten times the mutations of never-smokers' tumours. His selected paper reports the genomic landscape of non-small-cell lung cancer in smokers and never-smokers. He has led multiple cooperative-group lung trials and continues to work on immunotherapy in lung cancer.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Role: Anheuser-Busch Chair in Medical Oncology; Director, Section of Medical Oncology
- Specialisms: Lung cancer; Genomics of smokers' lung cancer; Immunotherapy

## Sources

- WashU profile: https://oncology.wustl.edu/people/ramaswamy-govindan-md/
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Govindan%20R%5BAuthor%5D

## Connected records

- cancers: [KRAS G12C-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/kras-g12c-nsclc/), [Non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/)
- institutions: [Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University](https://onco.cc/institutions/wustl-siteman/)
- terms: [Tumour mutational burden (TMB)](https://onco.cc/terms/tmb/)

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