{"entity":{"id":"robert-fenstermaker","kind":"person","name":"Robert A. Fenstermaker","aka":[],"tldr":"Robert Fenstermaker invented SurVaxM, a survivin-targeted vaccine in late-stage trials for glioblastoma.","summary":"Robert A. Fenstermaker is Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Neuro-Oncology Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a neurosurgeon-scientist known for inventing SurVaxM, a survivin peptide mimic vaccine for glioblastoma that showed encouraging phase 2 results and advanced to a randomised trial in newly diagnosed disease. His selected paper reports the phase 2 trial of SurVaxM with temozolomide in newly diagnosed glioblastoma. He continues to work on cancer vaccines and glioma while leading neurosurgery at Roswell Park.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Roswell Park profile","url":"https://www.roswellpark.org/robert-fenstermaker"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Fenstermaker%20RA%5BAuthor%5D"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["glioblastoma"],"sections":[],"technologies":["shared-antigen-vaccine"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["roswell-park"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Director, Neuro-Oncology Program","institutionId":"roswell-park","specialisms":["Glioblastoma","Cancer vaccines","Survivin"],"profiles":[{"label":"Roswell Park profile","url":"https://www.roswellpark.org/robert-fenstermaker"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Fenstermaker%20RA%5BAuthor%5D"}],"papers":[{"title":"Phase 2 trial of SurVaxM with temozolomide in newly diagnosed glioblastoma","journal":"Journal of Clinical Oncology","year":2023}],"orcid":"0000-0003-0309-8130"},"route":"/people/robert-fenstermaker/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"glioblastoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Glioma & glioblastoma","route":"/cancers/glioblastoma/"}],"technology":[{"id":"shared-antigen-vaccine","kind":"technology","name":"Off-the-shelf cancer vaccines","route":"/technologies/shared-antigen-vaccine/"}],"institution":[{"id":"roswell-park","kind":"institution","name":"Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/roswell-park/"}]}}