President Joe Biden is expected to pick cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli as the next director of the National Cancer Institute. Bertagnolli specializes in gastrointestinal cancers and is well known for her expertise in clinical trials.
President Joe Biden is expected to pick cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli as the next director of the National Cancer Institute . Bertagnolli, a physician-scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Center, and Harvard Medical School, specializes in gastrointestinal cancers and is well known for her expertise in clinical trials. She will replace Ned Sharpless, who stepped down as NCI director in April after nearly 5 years.
Bertagnolli, 63, will be the first woman to lead NCI. Her lab research on tumor immunology and the role of a gene calledin colorectal cancer led to a landmark trial she headed showing that an anti-inflammatory drug can help prevent this cancer. In 2007, she became the chief of surgery at the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center.
One of Bertagnolli’s first tasks will be to shape NCI’s role in Biden’s reignited Cancer Moonshot, which aims to slash the U.S. cancer death rate in half within 25 years. NCI’s new leader also needs to sort out how the agency will mesh with a new NIH component that will fund high-risk, goal-driven research, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health .
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