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Center appoints interim director
Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, has been named interim director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.
Platanias previously served as deputy director of Lurie Cancer Center.
“Leon has provided great leadership over the past decade, recruiting numerous faculty and helping build the Lurie Cancer Center’s international prominence,” Eric G. Neilson, MD, vice president for medical affairs and Lewis Landsberg dean, said in a press release. “As interim director, he will carry forward the Lurie Cancer Center’s reputation as one of the nation’s premier cancer research facilities.”
Leonidas Platanias
Northwestern will conduct a nationwide search for a permanent director.
In addition to his duties as interim director, Platanias will continue his molecular biology and biochemistry research, which is focused on signaling pathways in cancer cells.
“I am honored to become interim director of one of the leading cancer centers,” Platanias said. “We have experienced remarkable achievements under the outgoing leadership of Steve Rosen, MD, and are now well positioned for the next phase of growth.”
Platanias joined Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in 2002 as the Jesse, Sara, Andrew, Abigail, Benjamin and Elizabeth Lurie professor of oncology. Prior to that, he was chief of the division of hematology/oncology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.