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Lee M. Krug has taken a position as the Immuno-Oncology Disease Area Head for Lung and Head & Neck Cancers in US Medical at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He assumes this role following 15 years on the Thoracic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he focused his clinical research primarily in small-cell lung cancer…

Karen Kelly, has been named chair of the Lung Committee of SWOG, one of the US’s leading cooperative cancer research organizations. Dr. Kelly is Professor of Medicine, holds the Jennifer Rene Harmon Tegley and Elizabeth Erica Harmon Endowed Chair in Cancer Clinical Research, and is the Associate Director for Clinical Research at at the UC…

Bruce E. Johnson has been elected President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for the term beginning in June 2017. Dr. Johnson is Chief Clinical Research Officer and Institute Physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, US, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Lung Cancer…

Dr. Federico Cappuzzo, has been appointed as the new Director of Medical Oncology at Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale (AUSL) della Romagna in Ravenna, Italy. Dr. Cappuzzo was previously the Director of the Medical Oncology Department at the Ospedale Civile, Livorno.

Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD, FACP, has been appointed Professor of Oncology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, US. He is also Director of the Early Cancer Therapeutics Program and Director of Global Oncology at Mayo’s three sites in Arizona, Florida, and Minnesota. Dr. Adjei is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology and previously was Professor…