Professional Experience

2008 - present, Director, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2005 - 2009, Co-leader, Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Program, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

2005 - present, Deputy Director, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

2005 - present, Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute

2005 - 2008, Chair, Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute

2003 - 2005, Associate Director for Basic Research, Moffitt Research Institute

2000 - 2005, Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, University of South Florida College of Medicine

1995 - 2005, Professor, Department of Pathology, University of South Florida College of Medicine

1995 - 2005, Professor (tenured), Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida

1995 - 2005, Program Leader, Molecular Oncology Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

1994 - 1995, Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan

1992 - 1995, Director, Molecular Oncology Program, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

1988 - 1994, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan

1984 - 1988, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Viral Oncology, Rockefeller University (Dr. H. Hanafusa)

1979 - 1984, Predoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University (Dr. James L. Manley)

Education and Training

1984 - 1988, Rockefeller University, New York, NY. Postdoc, Viral Oncology

1984, Columbia University, New York, NY. Ph.D., Molecular Biology

1977 - 1978, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY. B.A./M.S., Cell and Molecular Biology

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported. Last updated 08/09.

Honors and Awards

2010, Morgan and Helen Chu Director’s Chair, Beckman Research Institute

2003 - 2005, Frank and Carol Morsani Chair in Molecular Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.

2003 - present, Scientific Advisory Boards:  Burnham Institute Cancer Center; Penn State Cancer Center; Foundation for Advanced Cancer Studies; Wyeth Research; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Pediatric Cancer Foundation; Rhode Island Hospital.

2003, Co-organizer, Annual Meeting on Oncogenes, Frederick, MD.

2002, Scientist of the Year Award, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.

2000, Guest Editor, Oncogene Reviews (STAT Signaling).

1998 - 2005, AACR Program Committees:  Molecular Biology, Cell and Tumor Biology, New Molecular Targets.

1995 - present, Ad Hoc Reviewer: NIH Virology Study Section, NCI Subcommittee A (Cancer Centers), NCI Subcommittee C (Basic and Preclinical), various NCI Site Visit Teams.

1988 - 1991, Junior Faculty Research Award, American Cancer Society

1984 - 1987, Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship.

1984, John S. Newberry Prize in Biology (Outstanding Graduate Student Award), Columbia University.