Petr Szturz is a medical oncologist at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Switzerland. After receiving his medical training at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia and Medical University of Vienna, Austria he participated in several fellowships organized by ESMO. These included a one-year translational fellowship at the Bichat-Beaujon University Hospital in Paris, France and a Clinical Unit Visit at the Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium, where he met his future mentor, Professor Jan B. Vermorken.
Dr. Szturz collaborated on 120 scientific publications of which on over 60 he was the first author with articles also in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Lancet. His main research interests concern head and neck cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, and very rare diseases. He has been involved in clinical and translational studies, also participating in editorial work for several journals such as Frontiers in Oncology, Current Oncology, and Cancers. Dr. Szturz was granted the award for the Best fellowship project from ESMO and the Young Investigators' Award from the German, Austrian and Swiss Societies for Hematology and Oncology (DGHO).