Vincent Rajkumar, MD
S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D., is the Editor in Chief of Blood Cancer Journal, and the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. His academic career was profiled by The Lancet: Nov 26th 2011 issue. He is co-chair of the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG), and Chair of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) myeloma committee. He also serves as the Associate Editor for: Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Leukemia, and European Journal of Hematology.
Dr. Rajkumar has received several awards including the Giants of Cancer Care Award (2019) from OncLive, the Robert A. Kyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), and the Jan Waldenstrom Award (2021) from the International Myeloma Society. He was named Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator in 2018. He serves on the board of directors for the International Myeloma Foundation and is a member of the National Institutes of Health’s Multiple Myeloma Steering Committee. Dr. Rajkumar has over 700 publications, including over 400 peer-reviewed original research papers, and over 200 reviews and book chapters.