Dr. Michael Gnant is a Full Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, where he also serves as President of the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group.

He is co-chairing and hosting the renowned St. Gallen International
Consensus Panel for Early Breast Cancer in Vienna since 2015.

Dr. Gnant graduated in medicine in Vienna (1988) and subsequently specialized in surgery (1994) and surgical oncology. He also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA (1997–1999).

Dr. Gnant’s research interests include several fields of surgical oncology, in particular breast and pancreatic cancer, immunotherapy, bone-targeted treatment for tumour micrometastases, tumor dormancy/quiescence and late relapse, pathway-directed therapies such as mTOR and CDK4/6 inhibition, SERDs, and he has been the
Principal Investigator of many (N>30) clinical trials in these fields.

He is the author of more than 500 original peer-reviewed papers with an impact factor of 4,500 and an h-index of 90. Dr. Gnant has presented over 1,000 lectures at national and international meetings. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the prestigious Claudia von Schilling Prize from the Medical University of Hannover, the Umberto Veronesi Lecture Award of Breast Surgery International, and a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2017, 2021, and 2022, he was among the most highly cited scientists worldwide.

Dr. Gnant is involved in many scientific societies including ASCO, AACR, ACS, Breast International Group (BIG), EORTC, ESSO, EUSOMA, and UICC. He served as an executive board member of BIG, is an independent reviewer and IDMC member for the EORTC, UICC, and other international bodies, and is a scientific reviewer and process evaluator for the European Union.

Dr Gnant is also Editor-in-Chief of BREAST CARE, and an editorial board member and reviewer for many top-tier peer-reviewed journals including The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Annals of Oncology.