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Dr. Belldegrun joined Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. in December 2003 as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Belldegrun is Chief of the Division of Urologic Oncology and holds the Roy and Carol Doumani Chair in Urologic Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
He is also the Founder of Agensys, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company focused on the development of fully human monoclonal antibodies to treat solid tumor cancers based on Agensys’ proprietary targets. Dr. Belldegrun served as founding Chairman of Agensys from 1997-2002 and currently serves on Agensys’ Board of Directors and as a consultant.
He completed his medical degree at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, his post graduate fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science and his residency in Urology at Harvard Medical School. Prior to UCLA, Dr. Belldegrun was at the National Cancer Institute/NIH as a research fellow in surgical oncology under Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD. He is certified by the American Board of Urology and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr Belldegrun is also on the scientific boards of several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and serves as a reviewer for many medical journals and granting organizations including the Journal of Urology and the American Foundation of Urologic Diseases. In addition to holding several patents, Dr. Belldegrun is the author of several books on prostate and kidney cancers and has written over 250 scientific publications with an emphasis on urologic oncology, particularly kidney, prostate and bladder cancers. | 