[2] In addition to his work in ovarian cancer, the combinatorial immune therapies proposed by Professor Coukos have been successfully tested and approved for lung, liver and kidney cancers.

He completed training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Modena in 1991.

He then undertook a post-doctorate fellowship in cell biology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (1991–1994) where he also completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology (1994–1997) as well as fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology (1997–2000).

At the University of Pennsylvania, George Coukos founded (2007) and directed the Ovarian Cancer Research Center,[4] and served as associate director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology.

[5] He was appointed director of the Lausanne branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the same year.