Luis Malpica Castillo

Dr. Luis Malpica is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center focused on creating better treatments for T-cell lymphomas. Originally from Peru, his early work on virus-associated blood cancers provided a strong foundation for his current research. Throughout his career, Dr. Malpica has earned prestigious awards from the American Society of Hematology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Lymphoma Research Foundation and Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Dr. Malpica leads pioneering clinical trials that use the unique biology of a patient's cancer to guide smarter, targeted therapies, moving beyond traditional chemotherapy. He is deeply committed to collaboration, evidenced by his role in founding a Latin American lymphoma consortium and co-directing MD Anderson's multidisciplinary skin lymphoma clinic to speed patient access to new therapies. His ultimate goal is to establish a new, more effective standard of care for patients everywhere.