Overview
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Naoto T. Ueno, M.D. PhD, is Director, University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. The public record shows 1,442 publications with 49,693 citations (h-index 98), centered on Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research, Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies. It also documents an investigator role on 21 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 26 companies, 4 NIH-funded awards (2019–2025).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · British journal of cancer
- Top research focus: Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- 21 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 26 companies
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Drugs & moleculesacross trials, industry payments and publications
Works withtrial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Scholarshipindexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
View publications ↓Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 70 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 406.
Clinical & industrytrials, payments and federal funding
Public positionssourced statements on record
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Clinical trials
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Listed as an investigator on 21 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Droplet-BC Screening Test for the Detection of Breast Cancer, the DROPLET-BC Study
Sponsor: Preferred Medicine, Inc
InvestigatorUnknownNCT04671498 - Harvest of CTCs From MBC Patients Using the Parsortix™ PC1 System
Sponsor: Angle plc
InvestigatorCompletedNCT03427450 - Safety Study of MELK Inhibitor to Treat Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer and Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Sponsor: OncoTherapy Science, Inc.
InvestigatorPhase 1RecruitingNCT02926690
Industry payments
Updated 14 Jul 2026
26 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Program year20257 payments$26,930openpaymentsdata.cms.gov ↗
- AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LPProgram year20254 payments
- Caris MPI, Inc.Program year20252 payments
NIH funding
Updated 14 Jul 2026
4 NIH research awards on record, funded 2019–2025 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- CD44 splice variants as novel antibody-targets for advanced breast cancer
University of Texas at Austin
FY2026$668,878R01CA310174 - Development of a novel therapy targeting the tumor microenvironment in inflammatory breast cancer
University of Hawaii at Manoa
FY2025$1,309,379R01CA258523
Publications
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Understanding and Overcoming Antibody-Drug Conjugate Resistance: Biological Mechanisms and Emerging Analytical Frameworks in Breast Cancer.
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
2026
Most-cited worksby citation count (OpenAlex)
- 01Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Previously Treated HER2-Low Advanced Breast Cancer2,561 citations2022
- 02Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences2,352 citations2016
- 03
- 05Role of epidermal growth factor receptor in breast cancer803 citations2012
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Background & recognition
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Educationdegrees and training on record
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- MD
Wakayama Medical College, Japan
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The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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- Board Certified
Medical Oncology / Internal Medicine (per self-reported Facebook post: "board-certified in internal medicine for 30 years" …
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Editorial & leadership rolesjournal and society appointments
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- Founder
Japan TeamOncology Program (J-TOP), founded 2002 as an MD Anderson-affiliated multidisciplinary breast-oncology capacity-building initiative in Japan/Asia; program now marking 22+ years
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Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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- Former Professor of Medicine
Executive Director of the Morgan Welch Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Program & Clinic, and Section Chief of Translational Breast Cancer Research …
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Keio University (Japan)
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- The ASCO Post
"Living a Full Life" interview series feature: "New Director of the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD, FACP, Is Also a Two-Time Cancer Survivor"
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Updated 14 Jul 2026
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facebook.com/ntueno
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uhcancercenter.org/ueno-naoto
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