Ethan Dmitrovsky

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ABOUT ETHAN DMITROVSKY

Dr. Ethan Dmitrovsky is director of the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and president of Leidos Biomedical Research. This National Laboratory combats cancer, HIV/AIDS, and emerging health challenges like Zika, Ebola, and the coronavirus outbreaks. At the Frederick National Laboratory, he boosted collaborations with local, regional, national and international research institutions, colleges, and universities. Dr. Dmitrovsky seeks to improve the public’s health through a caring and humanistic approach to leadership. An American Cancer Society (ACS) Professor and former provost and executive vice president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, he has served as chair of the Pharmacology and Toxicology Department and Interim Dean at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and as chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for Clinical Sciences and Epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute. He currently chairs the Research Council of the ACS. Dr. Dmitrovsky graduated from Harvard University and Cornell University Medical College. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital-Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and his oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. He directs a laboratory focused on molecular pharmacology. Dr. Dmitrovsky was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Association of American Physicians (AAP) and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science He received an honorary master\'s degree from Dartmouth and an honorary Doctor of Sceince degree from Hood College.