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Matthew Milowsky, MD, FASCO, is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member, a medical oncologist, and clinical and translational researcher. His clinical interest is the treatment of patients with genitourinary cancers, including bladder, testicular, kidney and prostate cancer.

MD, FASCO
The George Gabriel and Frances Gable Villere Distinguished Professor of Bladder and Genitourinary Cancer Research
Co-Leader, UNC Lineberger Clinical Research Program
Section Chief, Genitourinary Oncology
Co-Director, Urologic Oncology Program
UNC School of Medicine
Clinical Research

Meet Matthew Milowsky

Area of Interest

Milowsky is a medical oncologist and clinical and translational researcher. His clinical interest is in the treatment of patients with genitourinary cancers, including bladder cancer, testicular cancer, kidney cancer, and prostate cancer. He is the Section Chief of the Genitourinary Oncology Service, and Co-Director of the Urologic Oncology Program.

Milowsky joined UNC to lead the Genitourinary Oncology Research Program with a focus on translational science and clinical trials for patients with urologic cancers. His research focuses on the development of novel therapies for patients with urologic malignancies. He has a particular interest in the design of clinical trials that utilize novel immunotherapies as well as those that use an integrated genomics approach to characterize genitourinary cancers for genetic alterations that may represent targets for novel agents.

Awards and Honors

  • Top Doctor (Castle Connolly Top Doctors), 2018
  • Best Doctors in America (Assembled by Best Doctors, Inc.), 2013-2018
  • Top Doctor of Chapel Hill (Castle Connolly Top Doctors,) 2017
  • UNC Health Care and Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence, 2016
  • UNC Health Care and Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence, 2016
  • Best Doctors in America (Assembled by Best Doctors, Inc.), 2015
  • Best Doctors in America (Assembled by Best Doctors, Inc.), 2014
  • Best Doctors in America (Assembled by Best Doctors, Inc.), 2013
  • AACR Henry Shepard Bladder Cancer Research Award, 2009
  • The MSKCC Paul Sherlock Housestaff Teaching Award, 2007
  • New York Magazine’s Best Doctors, 2007
  • New York Magazine’s Best Doctors, 2006
  • Weill Cornell Medical College Hematology and Medical Oncology Faculty Teaching Award, 2005
  • AACR Accelerating Anticancer Agent Development Workshop, 2004
  • DOD PRCP Physician Research Training Award, 2003
  • ASCO Merit Award, 2002
  • NCCN Fellows Recognition Program, 2002
  • ASCO/AACR Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop, 2001
  • ASCO Fellows Travel Grant Program, 2001
  • Amgen Fellowship Award in Hematology, 2001
  • NIH Institutional Research Fellowship Award in Hematology, 2001

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