Anthony W Tolcher

Dr. Anthony W Tolcher, MD, FRCPS(C), FACP is chief executive officer & founder of NEXT OncologyTM, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, a Phase 1 group that seeks to transform early clinical trials. Dr. Tolcher served as President and Co-Founder of START LLC from 2009 to 2018, one of the world’s largest clinical Phase and early drug development operations in cancer medicine with 5 locations in San Antonio Texas; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Madrid Spain; and Shanghai China. Dr. Tolcher is a medical oncologist who has over 25 years of experience in early drug development and clinical trials. He has been involved in many of the initial phases I study of new agents that subsequently were FDA approved for the treatment of cancer including pembrolizumab, copanlisib, trastuzumab emtansine, regorafenib, liposomal vincristine, cabazitaxel, carfilzomib, gefitinib, erlotinib, and eribulin. He is currently the principal investigator on 40 Phase 1 clinical studies and is a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research, and Annals of Oncology. He has chaired the Developmental Therapeutics Review Committee for the American Association of Clinical Oncology Annual Scientific Program.

Dr. Tolcher received his medical degree from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. His fellowship in oncology was also at The University of British Columbia. He also completed a fellowship in research at the NCI in Bethesda, MD.