Sumanta (Monty) Kumar Pal, MD, is an internationally recognized leader in the area of genitourinary cancers, including kidney, bladder, and prostate cancer. He is co-director of City of Hope's Kidney Cancer Program and is the head of the kidney and bladder cancer disease team at the institution.

Dr. Pal has published more than 300 PubMed cited articles that have been featured in prominent journals including Cancer Discovery, The Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, Cancer Cell, and European Urology.

Dr. Pal holds patents for new drugs currently under development in prostate cancer and also maintains one of the largest portfolios of clinical trials for kidney and bladder cancer research on the West Coast. He developed an integrated program that focuses heavily on collaborations with basic science researchers at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope and urologists in the Department of Surgery. Ultimately, Dr. Pal’s goal is to stimulate collaborative research across multiple departments in order to discover novel therapeutic approaches for currently incurable diseases. He has also worked to push the boundaries of personalized medicine in genitourinary cancers with several seminal publications in rare genitourinary cancers that describe unique therapeutic targets. He is the lead investigator on multiple trials, ranging from early phase 1 experiences to late stage phase 3 studies.

Dr. Pal sits on the editorial board for Kidney Cancer and is a reviewer for multiple journals including Lancet Oncology, The Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Journal of Urology, European Urology, and many others. Dr. Pal has received grants from the National Institute of Health, the Comprehensive Cancer Network, SWOG Cancer Research Network, and multiple other leading entities in support of his formidable research.