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Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center

Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center is one of China's largest cancer centres, the global leader in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and a top enroller for Chinese ADC and PD-1 trials.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma standards (Ma Jun), toripalimab and camrelizumab trials, iza-bren and other ADC trials.

Location
Guangzhou, CN
Type
cancer center
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
#60
OnCo score
#129 · 32 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 32 from 16 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
  • ADC and IO trials

People

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Feng Wang
Professor of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Gastric cancerColorectal cancerImmunotherapy biomarkers

A GI oncologist whose work on immunotherapy biomarkers and Chinese gastric cancer trials feeds global guidelines.

Jun Ma
Professor of Radiation Oncology; nasopharyngeal carcinoma programme, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Nasopharyngeal carcinomaRadiation oncologyInduction chemotherapy

Jun Ma is the world's leading nasopharyngeal carcinoma trialist, whose randomised studies define induction chemotherapy and immunotherapy for the disease.

Li Zhang
Professor of Medical Oncology; Director, Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Lung cancerNasopharyngeal carcinomaImmunotherapy

Led the Chinese trials of PD-1 blockade in nasopharyngeal and lung cancer and the early studies of the EGFR×HER3 bispecific ADC iza-bren.

Mu-Sheng Zeng
Professor; Director, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Epstein-Barr virusNasopharyngeal carcinoma biologyViral oncology

Virologist who mapped how Epstein-Barr virus drives nasopharyngeal cancer and is developing vaccines against it.

Rui-Hua Xu
President, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; Professor of Medical Oncology
Gastrointestinal oncologyColorectal cancerOesophageal and gastric cancer

Leads China's largest cancer centre and has run the Chinese phase 3 trials that brought PD-1 antibodies into GI cancer.

Wenfeng Fang
Professor of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Lung cancerImmunotherapyNasopharyngeal carcinoma

Wenfeng Fang is a lung cancer oncologist at the centre of China's PD-1 and bispecific antibody trials, including ivonescimab in EGFR-mutant disease.

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