Jonathan Friedberg, MD, MMSc, obtained his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA in 1994. He then went on to do an internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, before undergoing a Hematology & Oncology Fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA. Dr Friedberg also has an MMSc degree in clinical investigation from Harvard Medical School.

Dr Friedberg is currently the Director of the Wilmot Cancer Institute and the Samuel Durand Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. In June 2021, he began his five-year term as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), the flagship journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).