Renata Ferrarotto

Renata Ferrarotto is a Professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on tumor immunology, immunotherapy resistance mechanisms, and the tumor microenvironment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, with particular emphasis on intratumoral bacteria and cancer-induced nerve injury as drivers of anti-PD-1 therapy resistance. She has led international multicenter trials in sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma and adenoid cystic carcinoma, and contributed to a landmark phase 3 trial comparing proton versus photon radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer. Her work has been published in Nature, Nature Cancer, The Lancet, and Clinical Cancer Research.