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MD Anderson names research co-director
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Anirban Maitra
Anirban Maitra, MBBS, has been appointed co-director and scientific director of the Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
“It’s a revolutionary time to be at MD Anderson if you’re a cancer researcher,” Maitra said in a press release. “The pancreatic cancer research center by itself is an incredible opportunity to build one of the best, well-rounded pancreatic cancer groups in the country, bringing MD Anderson basic scientists, oncologists, surgeons, radiologists and pathologists under a single umbrella.”
Maitra, who will begin the role Aug. 1, serves as a professor of pathology and oncology at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also is an affiliate faculty member of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine.
“As a consummate physician-scientist, Anirban Maitra has impacted on our fundamental understanding of pancreas cancer and has translated such knowledge into clinical trials,” Ronald DePinho, MD, president of MD Anderson, said in the release.