{"entity":{"id":"zhou-caicun","kind":"person","name":"Caicun Zhou","aka":["caicun-zhou"],"tldr":"Principal investigator of HARMONi-2, the trial where ivonescimab beat pembrolizumab head-to-head, and of the first EGFR-TKI phase 3 in Chinese patients.","summary":"Caicun Zhou is Professor of Medical Oncology at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, and a leader of the Chinese Thoracic Oncology Group. He led OPTIMAL, one of the first trials to prove that an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, erlotinib, beats chemotherapy in EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer, and it was the first EGFR-TKI phase 3 in Chinese patients. Two decades later he was principal investigator of HARMONi-2, in which the Akeso bispecific antibody ivonescimab, which targets PD-1 and VEGF, beat pembrolizumab head-to-head in first-line PD-L1-positive non-small-cell lung cancer. His publications include the HARMONi-2 and OPTIMAL trial reports, and his interests span EGFR inhibitors, immunotherapy and bispecific antibodies. He is President of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer for the 2025 to 2027 term and one of the most prolific lung cancer clinical investigators in China.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital","url":"https://www.shsfkyy.com"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Zhou%20C%5BAuthor%5D%20Shanghai%20Pulmonary%20Hospital%20ivonescimab"},{"label":"IASLC board","url":"https://www.iaslc.org/learn-about-us/board-directors"}],"tags":["leadership","clinician-scientist","lung cancer"],"related":[],"cancers":["nsclc","sclc"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":["pd1","vegf","egfr"],"drugs":["ivonescimab"],"companies":["ctong","akeso"],"institutions":["shanghai-pulmonary-hospital","iaslc"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":["harmoni-2"],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Professor of Medical Oncology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University; President, IASLC (2025-2027)","institutionId":"shanghai-pulmonary-hospital","specialisms":["Lung cancer","EGFR inhibitors","Immunotherapy","Bispecific antibodies","Targeted therapy"],"profiles":[{"label":"Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital","url":"https://www.shsfkyy.com"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Zhou%20C%5BAuthor%5D%20Shanghai%20Pulmonary%20Hospital%20ivonescimab"},{"label":"IASLC board","url":"https://www.iaslc.org/learn-about-us/board-directors"}],"papers":[{"title":"Ivonescimab versus pembrolizumab for PD-L1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (HARMONi-2)","journal":"Lancet","year":2025,"doi":"10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02722-3"},{"title":"Erlotinib versus chemotherapy as first-line treatment for patients with advanced EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (OPTIMAL)","journal":"Lancet Oncology","year":2011,"doi":"10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70184-X"},{"title":"Camrelizumab plus carboplatin and pemetrexed versus chemotherapy alone in chemotherapy-naive patients with advanced non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (CameL): a randomised, open-label, multicentre, phase 3 trial","journal":"The Lancet Respiratory Medicine","year":2021,"doi":"10.1016/s2213-2600(20)30365-9"},{"title":"Final overall survival results from a randomised, phase III study of erlotinib versus chemotherapy as first-line treatment of EGFR mutation-positive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (OPTIMAL, CTONG-0802)","journal":"Annals of Oncology","year":2015,"doi":"10.1093/annonc/mdv276"},{"title":"FLAURA: osimertinib as first treatment for EGFR-mutated lung cancer","journal":"New England Journal of Medicine","year":2018,"url":"https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1713137","doi":"10.1056/NEJMoa1713137"},{"title":"HARMONi-2: ivonescimab, a PD-1 x VEGF bispecific, beats pembrolizumab head-to-head in PD-L1-positive lung cancer","journal":"The Lancet","year":2025,"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=HARMONi-2+ivonescimab+pembrolizumab+Lancet"}]},"route":"/people/zhou-caicun/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"nsclc","kind":"cancer","name":"Non-small-cell lung cancer","route":"/cancers/nsclc/"},{"id":"ret-fusion-nsclc","kind":"cancer","name":"RET fusion-positive non-small-cell lung cancer","route":"/cancers/ret-fusion-nsclc/"},{"id":"sclc","kind":"cancer","name":"Small-cell lung cancer","route":"/cancers/sclc/"}],"target":[{"id":"egfr","kind":"target","name":"EGFR","route":"/targets/egfr/"},{"id":"pd1","kind":"target","name":"PD-1","route":"/targets/pd1/"},{"id":"vegf","kind":"target","name":"VEGF / VEGFR","route":"/targets/vegf/"}],"drug":[{"id":"ivonescimab","kind":"drug","name":"Ivonescimab","route":"/drugs/ivonescimab/"}],"company":[{"id":"akeso","kind":"company","name":"Akeso","route":"/companies/akeso/"},{"id":"ctong","kind":"company","name":"Chinese Thoracic Oncology Group","route":"/companies/ctong/"}],"institution":[{"id":"iaslc","kind":"institution","name":"International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer","route":"/institutions/iaslc/"},{"id":"shanghai-pulmonary-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital","route":"/institutions/shanghai-pulmonary-hospital/"}],"trial":[{"id":"camel","kind":"trial","name":"CameL","route":"/trials/camel/"},{"id":"gemstone-302","kind":"trial","name":"GEMSTONE-302","route":"/trials/gemstone-302/"},{"id":"harmoni-2","kind":"trial","name":"HARMONi-2","route":"/trials/harmoni-2/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-flaura-nejm-2018","kind":"paper","name":"FLAURA: osimertinib as first treatment for EGFR-mutated lung cancer","route":"/key-papers/paper-flaura-nejm-2018/"},{"id":"paper-harmoni-2-lancet-2025","kind":"paper","name":"HARMONi-2: ivonescimab, a PD-1 x VEGF bispecific, beats pembrolizumab head-to-head in PD-L1-positive lung cancer","route":"/key-papers/paper-harmoni-2-lancet-2025/"}]}}