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GW Cancer Center selects inaugural director
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Eduardo M. Sotomayor, MD, has been named inaugural director of the GW Cancer Center at George Washington University.
The center is scheduled to open in 2016. As director, Sotomayor will serve as chief academic and clinical leader with responsibility and authority over all aspects of the operation. His priorities include attaining NCI designation for the cancer center within the decade.
Sotomayor also will serve as professor of medicine.
“I am humbled and thrilled with my selection as the inaugural director of the GW Cancer Center during this era of transformational changes in the history of GW,” Sotomayor said in a press release. “What attracted me the most to GW is the unique opportunity to create a dynamic and innovative cancer center that, because of its location in the nation’s capital, can influence cancer research innovation, as well as cancer policy. This unique platform … clearly a recipe for success.”
Sotomayor previously served as scientific director of the DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute, Susan and John Sykes endowed chair of hematologic malignancies and chair of the department of malignant hematology at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. He also served as professor in the department of oncologic sciences and the department of pathology and cell biology at University of South Florida College of Medicine.