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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Roswell Park is America's first cancer centre (1898), with strengths in immunotherapy and cell therapy manufacturing.
Overview
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo is America's first cancer centre, founded in 1898, and holds NCI comprehensive designation; its strengths are immunotherapy and cell therapy manufacturing. It runs GMP cell manufacturing, developed the SurVaxM glioblastoma vaccine, and is the origin of photodynamic therapy through Dougherty, with Candace S. Johnson, Renier J. Brentjens, Igor Puzanov, Eunice S. Wang, Pawel Kalinski and Robert A. Fenstermaker and Kara M. Kelly among the people OnCo lists, and Gilda Radner also linked. OnCo connects it to photoimmunotherapy and photodynamic therapy and to Generate:Biomedicines. Whether academic GMP capacity can lower the cost of cell therapies is the question its manufacturing programme tests. Its cell therapy and photodynamic programmes are listed below.
Location
Buffalo, NY, US
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
NCI designation
comprehensive
OnCo score
#322 · 21 points (0 Newsweek + 15 NCI + 6 from 3 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-24.
Matched to Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, including child institutions. 1,174 works · 16,051 citations · 65% open access · 14% clinical trials · 2% reviews.
Oncology works per year
2322022
2542023
2252024
2812025
1822026
Most works
- Kristopher M. Attwood60 works
- Marco L. Davila59 works
- Christos K Fountzilas58 works
- Igor Puzanov58 works
- Kazuaki Takabe57 works
- Megan M. Herr48 works
- Renier J. Brentjens43 works
- Frederick Lundry Locke40 works
- Francisco J. Hernandez‐Ilizaliturri39 works
- Christine B. Ambrosone36 works
Most cited
- Cell therapy manufacturing
- Photodynamic therapy
Candace S. Johnson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cancer pharmacologyVitamin D and calcitriolAcademic leadership
Candace Johnson is a pharmacologist who has led America's oldest cancer centre since 2015.
Eunice S. Wang
Chief, Leukemia Service
Acute myeloid leukaemiaFLT3 inhibitorsNovel leukaemia agents
Eunice Wang is an AML trialist who helped bring FLT3 and menin inhibitors to patients.
Gilda Radner
Comedian whose ovarian cancer inspired Gilda's Club and a hereditary cancer registry
Ovarian cancerHereditary cancerPsychosocial support
The Saturday Night Live star wrote about her ovarian cancer in It's Always Something and died at 42 in 1989. Her name lives on in Gilda's Club and the familial ovarian cancer registry at Roswell Park.
Igor Puzanov
Director, Early Phase Clinical Trials Program; Chief, Melanoma Section
MelanomaOncolytic virusesImmune-related toxicity
Led the first talimogene laherparepvec plus ipilimumab study and co-wrote the immune toxicity management guidelines.
Kara M. Kelly
Chair of Pediatric Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center; Division Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University at Buffalo
Paediatric Hodgkin lymphomaResponse-adapted therapyCooperative-group trials
Leads the COG Hodgkin lymphoma committee and the trials bringing brentuximab and nivolumab to children with the disease.
Pawel Kalinski
Vice Chair for Translational Research, Department of Medicine; Chief, Translational Immuno-Oncology
Dendritic cell vaccinesChemokine modulationTumour microenvironment
Pawel Kalinski is an immunologist reprogramming tumour microenvironments so T cells can enter.
Renier J. Brentjens
Deputy Director; Chair, Department of Medicine; Katherine Anne Gioia Endowed Chair in Cancer Medicine
CAR-T therapyArmoured CARsLeukaemia
Built one of the first CD19 CAR-T programmes and invented 'armoured' CAR-T cells that secrete cytokines.
Robert A. Fenstermaker
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Director, Neuro-Oncology Program
GlioblastomaCancer vaccinesSurvivin
Robert Fenstermaker invented SurVaxM, a survivin-targeted vaccine in late-stage trials for glioblastoma.