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Roswell Park Cancer Institute names department chairman
John Krolewski , MD, PhD, has been named chair of the department of cancer genetics and genomics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
Krolewski — who served as interim chair of the department since March 2016 — also will serve as co-leader of the cancer center support grant genetics and genomics program, and he will hold the John and Santa Palisano endowed chair of cancer genetics and genomics.
Members of the department of cancer genetics and genomics strive to improve the understanding of mechanisms and pathways through which cells evolve to become cancer cells.
“Dr. Krolewski brings a great mix of leadership, inspiration, operational experience and scientific excellence to this position,” Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, deputy director of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, said in a press release.
Krolewski served on the faculty at Columbia University from 1990 to 1998. He later served as co-leader of the carcinogenesis program at Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California, Irvine, as well as chair of pathology and laboratory medicine at University of Rochester and leader of the solid tumor program at the university’s Wilmot Cancer Institute. He joined Roswell Park Cancer Institute in 2015.