DENNIS J. SLAMON

M.D., PH.D., WOMEN’S CANCER RESEARCH, UCLA CANCER CENTER & BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BIOMARIN

Dr. Slamon currently serves as director of Clinical/Translational Research, and as director of the Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program, at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Slamon is a professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at, and executive vice chair for research for, UCLA’s Department of Medicine and also serves as director of the medical advisory board for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, a fund-raising organization that promotes advances in colorectal cancer. A 1970 B.A. honors graduate in biology from Washington & Jefferson College and a 1975 graduate of the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, Dr. Slamon earned his Ph.D. in cell biology that same year. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, becoming chief resident in 1978. One year later, he became a fellow in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UCLA where he now serves on the faculty of medicine.