Dr. Adem Gunes, MD, PhD, (born 23 June 1976 in Bremen) is a German physician and the former head of a Complementary Cancer clinic of repute in Innsbruck/Austria.

He was born in Bremen, Germany. After graduating from high school in Bremen, he persuaded medicine in Lübeck/Germany.

Adem Gunes wrote his doctoral dissertation on the topic of "hyperthermia and chemotherapy" in 2001.

At the age of 28 he became a specialist physician for general and family medicine. After several years of independent practice in Hamburg, he decided to continue his previous research in complementary oncology and left Hamburg.

His fundamental research in the field of hyperthermia, their applicability in combination with other cancer drugs found great interest in the research community. In particular, he was able to demonstrate that through synergy effects the dose of chemotherapy could be reduced without decreasing their effectiveness.

In June 2008 he published the book "Hyperthermic oncology".
In 2008 he was appointed as the Chief Physician of ProLife Clinic in Innsbruck/Austria and played a key-role in the establishment of the research laboratory. He is also cofounder of the first Austrian hyperthermia center.

Systematic investigation of the applicability of natural substances in oncology was the prime focus of his research. Over the years, he established the world's largest database of natural substances in the field of cancer medicine.

He is the inventor of certain Complimentary Cancer Treatments that are now considered as standard treatments in some of the German clinics.