Renata Ferrarotto MD

Dr. Ferrarotto is an Associate Professor and Director of Head and Neck Oncology Clinical Research at the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical. In this role, she dedicates time to patient care as well as to clinical and translational research. Her work focuses on the clinical development of new personalized cancer therapies for patients with head and neck malignancies, with a particular interest in salivary gland cancers and other rarer tumor subtypes. She has conducted multiple investigator-initiated trials. Dr. Ferrarotto was a recipient of the MD Anderson Jeffrey Lee Cousins Fellowship in Lung Cancer in 2013, the ASCO Career Development Award in 2016, the Khalifa grant in 2016, a Stiefel grant in 2018, an Institutional Research Grant in 2020, two pilot grants from the Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation in 2000 and 2021, and the DOD Impact Award in 2021.