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American Association for Cancer Research names president-elect
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Elaine R. Mardis, PhD, has been chosen as president-elect of American Association for Cancer Research.
Mardis officially will become president-elect during the association's annual meeting in April. She will serve in the position for 1 year and then assume the association's presidency in April 2019.
Mardis is Nationwide Foundation endowed chair in genomic medicine and co-executive director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She also is professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Her research focuses on the genomic characterization of cancer and its implications for cancer medicine.
“I am humbled and excited by the AACR election result and I look forward to the opportunity to serve as the president of an organization whose vision and goals I have championed for many years," Mardis said in a press release.
Mardis has been a member of AACR since 2009. She will serve as program committee chair for this year's AACR Annual Meeting and also is a member of the association's board of directors.
She previously served as codirector of The McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis.
"Elaine Mardis has been an incredibly dynamic leader in the quest to improve our understanding of cancer by analyzing the human genome,” Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc), CEO of AACR, said in the release. “Her pioneering work in DNA sequencing has led to dramatic advances in our knowledge of how genetic mutations can cause cancer to develop and progress. This, in turn, has brought us closer to the goal of personalized medicine, which has helped reduce mortality from the scourge of cancer.”