The campus community is invited to the second candidate forum for the director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer on Monday, June 24.
The forum, which will run from noon to 1 p.m., in the Yanney Conference Room of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, will feature Jonathan Chernoff, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Chernoff currently serves as scientific director for the Institute of Cancer Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, as well as deputy director of the cancer center. In recognition of his national reputation in molecular oncology and biochemistry, Dr. Chernoff also holds the Stanley P. Reimann Chair in Oncology Research.
Following a brief presentation, titled “The promise and problems of targeted therapies in cancer,” Dr. Chernoff will take part in a question-and-answer session.
A molecular oncologist as well as a board-certified medical oncologist, Dr. Chernoff has a special interest in factors that control cell growth and movement, including oncogenes and anticancer or tumor-suppressor genes, and has made fundamental contributions in this research.
Dr. Chernoff earned his M.D. and his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1984 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh and a clinical fellowship in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. He then held a postdoctoral fellowship in cellular and developmental biology at Harvard University before coming to the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Campus forum attendees may provide their feedback on the candidate at CCDirector@wittkieffer.com.
Additional candidate forums will be announced as campus visits are finalized.
Information also will be available on the UNMC Leadership Searches page.