Professor and Chair
University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA)
Rob Svatek is Professor at the Department of Urology, UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Svatek’s clinical practice is devoted to the care of patients suffering from bladder cancer. He is passionate about clinical trial research for bladder cancer and he runs an NIH-funded cancer immunology laboratory, which focuses on the role of innate effector cells in mediating cancer immune surveillance and cancer therapy. Dr. Svatek’s research team conducts clinical trials that interface with laboratory and bladder cancer models, creating synergy between these parallel research approaches. Dr. Svatek is also actively involved in the development and conduct of trials through the Southwest Oncology Cooperative Group (SWOG), one of several cooperative groups within the National Cancer Institute’s publicly funded National Clinical Trials Network.
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Monday, May 16, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM