Guru P. Sonpavde, MD is the Director of Genitourinary (GU) Oncology and Phase I Research as well as the

Christopher K. Glanz Chair for Bladder Cancer Research at the AdventHealth Cancer Institute, and Professor

of Medicine at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. Previously, he was Bladder Cancer

Director at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

from 2017-2022, GU Oncology Director and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at

Birmingham from 2012 to 2017 and practiced from 2004 to 2012 at Texas Oncology, a US Oncology affiliate.

His focus is drug development (including early development Phase I clinical trials and later Phase II/III trials)

evaluating novel and emerging classes of treatments across solid tumors and clinical/translational research to

cure GU cancers with a focus on bladder cancer.