Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD

Chief Physician Executive and Chief Medical Officer

Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD, is Chief Physician Executive and Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). She oversees all clinical services, research, medical education, and multi-center collaborations for MSK, including the 500-bed Memorial Hospital, 13 outpatient facilities in New York City, and seven regional care sites across New York and New Jersey.

Lisa is an internationally recognized expert in brain cancer and the neurological complications of cancer treatment, including cognitive impairment and stroke.  During her thirty-year tenure at MSK, she served as chair of the Department of Neurology from 1997 to 2018, and co-founded MSK’s Brain Tumor Center, where experts from across MSK work to bring new discoveries from the lab to patients as quickly as possible.

Lisa’s own research has focused on primary brain tumors and she has led several clinical trials that investigate new tumor therapies. She also helped develop the current regimen to treat primary central nervous system lymphoma.

She is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 130 book chapters and has written or edited eight books. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Neurological Association (ANA) and former Vice Chair of the Board. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), which in 2019 awarded her the organization’s highest honor, the Wartenberg lecture.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Giulio F. Draetta, MD, PhD

Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer

Giulio Draetta is Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is a professor of Genomic Medicine and holds the Sewell Family Chair in Genomic Medicine, with a joint appointment as professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology. He also co-leads MD Anderson’s Moon Shots Program®, a bold initiative aimed at rapidly and substantially reducing deaths to several high-mortality cancers. As Chief Scientific Officer, Giulio champions innovation, develops strong partnerships and provides focused leadership on the basic science and clinical translation of research programs across the institution. He leads the regulatory infrastructure related to research finance, research integrity and protocol governance. His research focuses on mechanisms of disease in pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma.

Giulio earned his medical and postgraduate degrees from the University of Naples Medical School, Italy. Before joining MD Anderson in 2011, he was a Dana-Farber Presidential Scholar, and chief research business development officer and deputy director of the Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

He has held appointments at Pharmacia and Merck, as vice president and as worldwide head of oncology drug discovery, respectively. He has served as an investigator at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany; and the European Institute of Oncology. During his time in academia, Giulio spearheaded fundamental research in the biology of the eukaryotic cell division cycle and of DNA damage-induced checkpoints. His research led to discovery of the first mammalian cyclin-dependent kinase and demonstrated that cyclin-dependent kinases and cyclins physically interact and regulate multiple cell cycle transitions in eukaryotes.

He was co-founder and vice president of research for Mitotix, where he established programs in cancer, inflammation and infectious diseases that led to successful partnerships with several pharmaceutical companies. He headed numerous drug discovery and development programs, which led to two drug approvals in recent years. He co-founded Karyopharm Therapeutics, Inc., which focused on the development of selective inhibitors of nuclear export in oncology and other disease indications.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Laurie Glimcher, MD

President and Chief Executive Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Director, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

Laurie H. Glimcher, MD is the President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Director of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Professor of Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University.
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Philosophical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the former President of the American Association of Immunologists. She is a member of the Cancer Research Institute, Prix Galien, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Repare Therapeutics, Abpro Therapeutics, Kaleido BioSciences, Inc. Scientific Advisory Boards, the Lasker Award Jury, the American Association for Cancer Research, Association of American Cancer Institutes, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology and served on the Vice President’s Blue Ribbon panel. Laurie previously served on the Board of Directors of Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Corporation and the Waters Corporation.  She currently serves on the boards of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Corporation and Analog Devices, Inc.
Laurie’s research identified key transcriptional regulators of protective immunity and the origin of pathophysiologic immune responses underlying autoimmune, infectious and malignant diseases. Dr. Glimcher speaks nationally and internationally on cancer, immunology, and translational medicine and has contributed more than 350 scholarly articles and papers to the medical literature.
Laurie has been a staunch proponent of improved access to care, health policy, and medical education, while simultaneously serving as a pioneering mentor and role model for cancer research trainees and for all women in science. Notably, she was the first female to be appointed as dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and is the first female President and Chief Executive Officer of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.