Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, both in New York City, have appointed Lewis Cantley, PhD, as director of the newly established Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Cantley is credited with discovering a family of enzymes fundamental to understanding cancer. He currently is the William Bosworth Castle Chair in Medicine and professor of systems biology at Harvard and director of the Cancer Center and chief of the division of signal transduction at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
As director of the Cancer Center, Dr. Cantley will be in charge of developing the Center into a collaborative, multidisciplinary research enterprise focused on gathering Weill Cornell's research expertise under one umbrella. The Center will first focus on colorectal, lung, melanoma and hematopoietic cancers.
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Dr. Cantley is credited with discovering a family of enzymes fundamental to understanding cancer. He currently is the William Bosworth Castle Chair in Medicine and professor of systems biology at Harvard and director of the Cancer Center and chief of the division of signal transduction at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
As director of the Cancer Center, Dr. Cantley will be in charge of developing the Center into a collaborative, multidisciplinary research enterprise focused on gathering Weill Cornell's research expertise under one umbrella. The Center will first focus on colorectal, lung, melanoma and hematopoietic cancers.
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