Thomas J. Lynch Jr., MD; Kenneth C. Anderson, MD; and Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD, are featured.

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In February, ThomasJ. Lynch Jr., MD, became director of Fred Hutchinson CancerResearch Center in Seattle, WA, replacing Gary Gilliland, MD, PhD. Most recently,Lynch was the chief scientific officer at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has also served as director of the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, CT, and chief of Hematology-Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Lynch specializes in novel therapies for lung cancer: While at MGH, he investigated gefitinib (Iressa; AstraZeneca) to treat EGFR-mutant small cell lung cancer.

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Kenneth C. Anderson

Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, and Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD, became editors-in-chief of Blood Cancer Discovery, a new journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Ander-son is the director of the Lebow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and Jerome Lipper Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. He has served as president of the American Society of Hematology and editor-in-chief of the AACR's Clinical Cancer Research. Anderson's research, focused on developing treatments for plasma cell disorders, has led to the approval of bortezomib (Velcade; Millennium) and lenalidomide (Revlimid; Celgene) for multiple myeloma.

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Riccardo Dalla-Favera

Dalla-Favera is the director of the Institute for Cancer Genetics at Columbia University in New York, NY. He is also a professor of clinical medicine, as well as pathology and cell biology, at Columbia. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dalla-Favera is interested in the pathogenesis of B-cell malignancies such as Burkitt lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. His team studies genomic lesions that lead to the development of these diseases.

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