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Roswell Park Cancer Institute deputy director re-elected task force co-chair
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Kunle Odunsi , MD, PhD, FRCOG, deputy director of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, has been re-elected co-chair of the NCI’s Ovarian Task Force of the Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee.
He will serve 3 years.
The steering committee is charged with identifying cost-effective, science-driven and transparent processes that identify and promote the best science in clinical research related to gynecologic cancers. The committee has task forces for ovarian, cervical and uterine cancers.
Odunsi serves as co-chair of the ovarian cancer task force with Deborah Armstrong, MD, professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
“Dr. Odunsi is known for his devotion and dedication in the clinic, in the laboratory and within the national cancer community,” Candace Johnson, PhD, president and CEO of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, said in a press release. “We congratulate Dr. Odunsi for this recognition of his continued leadership and contributions which support innovative therapies for cancer, and specifically gynecologic cancers that will make a difference in the lives of patients.”