Tanja Cufer MD, PhD

Tanja Cufer, MD, PhD is a medical oncologist, Professor of Oncology at Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Senior Councilor at the University Clinic Golnik, Slovenia. Dr. Cufer gained her medical degree and PhD in oncology from the University of Ljubljana. Afterwards she completed her fellowship at the Stanford University and at The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.

Dr. Cufer`s major scientific interest are breast cancer, lung cancer, and molecular biology of cancer. She plays an active role in new drug development and she has been principal investigator in more than 20 multi-national clinical trials. She is very active in academic research in oncology. Her fruitful professional work resulted in almost 20 invited lectures at most prestigious oncology conferences as welll as in more than 200 articles, books and book chapters in the field of oncology.