Hope Rugo
Hope S. Rugo is professor of medicine and the director of the breast oncology clinical trials program at the University of California at San Francisco, and an investigator of SPORE in the Bay Area.
In 2014 Rugo chaired the advisory panel of OncLive's "Giants of Cancer Care" award program.
Rugo was lead investigator on research that investigated the hair-preserving properties of cold caps for patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Along with her studies she is also an active clinician who gives lectures locally as well as internationally and nationally.
In 2025, Rugo was named division chief of breast medical oncology for City of Hope, a cancer treatment and research group.
Education
- Tufts University, BS, 1979, Chemistry
- University of Pennsylvania, MD, 1984, Medicine
- University of California San Francisco, 1987, Resident, Internal Medicine
- University of California San Francisco, 1990, fellow, Hematology/Oncology
- Stanford University, 1988–90, postdoctoral fellowship, Microbiology/Immunology
- DNAX Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, 1989–90, visiting scientist, immunology