SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Druker has devoted his career to improving the lives of cancer patients. For his contributions to medical research, Dr. Druker was nominated for the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 2009. Dr. Druker is most well-known for his role in developing Gleevec® for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Dr. Druker's other career milestones include being named a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2002, becoming a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, winning the Japan Award in 2011, and being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. Dr. Druker received his M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, completed his residency in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and did an oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. 

From his earliest days, Dr. Druker was a dedicated researcher, winning the President's Undergraduate Research Award at the University of California, San Diego. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society and many other awards.

Dr. Daniel D. Von Hoff is currently Physician-in-Chief and Distinguished Professor of Translational Research at TGen (Translational Genomics Research Institute) in Phoenix, Arizona. He is Chief Scientific Officer for US Oncology and for Scottsdale Healthcare's Clinical Research Institute. He is also a Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic and serves as a Phoenix Children’s Hospital clinician. In 1989, Dr. Von Hoff was a founding director of the Institute for Drug Development at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio and ten years later he became Director of the Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona. In addition, Dr. Von Hoff was a founder of Ilex Oncology which obtained FDA approval for two new anticancer agents – alemtuzumab and clofarabine. Ilex was sold to Genzyme Corporation for $1 billion in 2004. Dr. Von Hoff also served a six-year term on President Bush’s National Cancer Advisory Board. He is a past president of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), was on the AACR and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)'s Board of Directors, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is the founder of Investigational New Drugs - The Journal of New Anticancer Agents and founder and Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Dr. Von Hoff graduated from Carroll College and received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He went on to complete his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Von Hoff became a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Structural Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. He was Associate Editor for two AACR journals, Clinical Cancer Research and Cancer Research.