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Prof

Ben Solomon

MBBS FRACP PhD

Board Member /

Scientific Chair /

Medical Oncologist

Professor Ben Solomon is a Medical Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Ben Solomon is involved in practice-changing lung cancer clinical trials with novel inhibitors of ALK, ROS1, NTRK, BRAF, cMET, RET, and KRAS, including pivotal trials leading to the registration of drugs including crizotinib, ceritinib, lorlatinib, repotrectinib, and selpercatinib. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and has been recognised as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).

Ben was elected to the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Board in 2023, and is also a Board member of the Cancer Council of Victoria.

TOGA Events:

TOGA Lung Cancer Preceptorship 2026

TOGA Post International Conference Highlights 2024

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Chair

Prof

Emily Stone

MBBS MMed PhD FRACP

Deputy Chair & Educational Chair

A/Prof

Melissa Moore

BA BSc MBBS (Hons) PhD FRACP

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Shalini Vinod

MBBS MD FRANZCR

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Nick Pavlakis

BSc MBBS MMEd (Clin Epi) PhD FRACP

Dr

Tracy Leong

MBBS (Hons) FRACP MPH PhD CCPU

Catherine Sim

LLB BEc FCPA MAICD

Avrom Sank

Bcom, ACA, Sloan Fellow LBS

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