New Haven, Conn.-based Yale Cancer Center has named Edward Kaftan, PhD, to serve as the associate cancer center director for research affairs, effective Jan. 1, 2022.
Dr .Kaftan first joined Yale School of Medicine in 2012 as an associate research scientist in the pharmacology department. He joined the medical oncology section in 2014 has since overseen Yale Cancer Center's translational science research efforts alongside Roh Herbst, MD, PhD.
Dr. Kaftan worked in research at Wyeth Research, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and R.W. Johnson PHarmaceutical Research Institute before joining Yale.
He succeeds Robert Garofalo, PhD, who is retiring at the end of this year.