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In January, Kelvin Lee, MD, became director of the Indiana University (IU) Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center in Indianapolis, succeeding Patrick Loehrer, MD. In addition, Lee became the senior associate dean of cancer research at IU School of Medicine. Previously, he served as the chair of immunology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY, where he also co-led the center's Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Program. He is an investigator on clinical trials of immunotherapy for multiple myeloma and maintains a clinical practice.

Jan Kitajewski, PhD, became director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center in Chicago in November; he served as interimdirector since December 2019. He will continue as head of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and as a professor of basic sciences at the center. Kitajewski previously held various positions at Columbia University in New York, NY, including head of the Division of Reproductive Sciences in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His research has uncovered mechanisms of embryonic, ovarian, retinal, and tumor angiogenesis.

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