George Peoples

U.S. Army, COL (ret) George E. Peoples, MD, FACS, serves as CMO for both Heat Biologics and its subsidiary, Pelican Therapeutics. Dr. Peoples is currently professor of surgery at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, as well as adjunct professor of surgical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC). He is also the founder and director of Cancer Insight, LLC, a clinical research and development organization dedicated to the discovering, development and testing for emerging biotechnologies specializing in cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Peoples recently retired from 30 years of active duty as a surgeon and as a research scientist in the military. He is the past chair of the cancer program at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, and the past deputy director of the United States Military Cancer Institute. Prior to that, he served as chief of surgical oncology at Walter Reed Amy Medical Center (WRAMC), as well as SAMMC. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Peoples completed his surgical training at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, and during that time, also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Biologic Cancer Therapy at Harvard Medical School. He then completed a surgical oncology fellowship at MDACC. Dr. Peoples has written extensively on the immune response to cancer, with over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters.