Professor and Deputy Chair

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics

Division of Cancer Medicine

University of Texas

MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, TX.

I am a Professor in and Deputy Chairman of the Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics (A Phase I Program), Clinical Medical Director of the Clinical Translational Research Center (CTRC), and Associate Vice President of Clinical Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. I was instrumental in forming one of the largest and most innovative Phase I clinical trial units in the world, with over 1,300 patients enrolled in clinical trials in FY2021 and over 400 active ongoing clinical trials. I have been Principal Investigator of over 120 research protocols that involve a wide range of sponsors, including the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) at the National Cancer Institute. I have published over 374 publications in peer-reviewed journals such as NEJM, Lancet Oncology, JCO, and Nature. I have been involved in the early development of cabozantinib, siltuximab, dabrafenib, trametinib, regorafenib, lenvatinib, larotrectinib, tesotumab vendotin, and sotorasib, the first drug to target KRAS, that have led to FDA approval. I also helped found two companies: OncoResponse and Telperian. I am an expert on c-Met , NTRK, KRAS, and adoptive cellular therapy in solid tumors, and have led several national trials such as the c-Met amplified, c-Met exon 14 deleted, and NTRK arms of the NCI-MATCH trial. He been awarded the ASCO Young Investigator Award, the Jesse Jones award, Best Boss Award at MD Anderson, Irwin Krakoff Award for Clinical Research, and the Gerald P. Bodey award for education and Mentor of the year award in the Division of Cancer Medicine, MD Anderson.