2ndEdition of World Vaccines R&D Conference 2026

Speakers - 2025

Jose Mordoh

  • Designation: Centro de Investigaciones Oncologicas FUCA
  • Country: Argentina

Biography

José Mordoh, M.D., Ph.D., was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated cum laude as Medical Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires.  He obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Luis F. Leloir, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1970. After obtaining a Guggenheim Fellowship, he made his post-doctoral studies at the Pasteur Institute, France, under the direction of Prof. Francois Jacob, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1965. After returning to Buenos Aires as a Scholar of the Leukemia Society of America, he founded the Laboratory of Cancerology at the Fundación Instituto Leloir. In 1994 he co-founded the Alexander Fleming Institute, the biggest private oncology hospital in Latin America. Presently he is Director of the  Center of Oncological Research of the Cancer Foundation (CIO-FUCA). He is Professor of Molecular Medicine and Molecular Oncology at the University of Buenos Aires.  For the last 30 years his research has focused on cancer immunotherapy, and more specifically on the development of immunotherapy in cutaneous melanoma. He is an Emeritus member of the American Association for Cancer Research.