Cheryl Willman, M.D. has been named Executive Director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and Director of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Mayo Clinic is the nation’s top-ranked health care delivery system and hospital. In her new role, Dr..
New leader named for Mayo Clinic cancer programs
Dr. Cheryl Wilman I could not be more honored by this opportunity to work with Mayo Clinic s exceptional leadership team, and its outstanding cancer physicians, scientists and staff.
Posted: May 17, 2021 1:27 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A new leader has been named for Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs and the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Cheryl Willman will take over and lead the expansion and strategic development of Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center sites in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, as well as newly developing Mayo Clinic global cancer programs in London, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Eric Lander to take an academic leave to serve as White House science advisor; Board of Directors appoints Todd Golub as director of Broad Institute
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Eric S. Lander, Founding Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, will step down from his leadership role and will take an unpaid, academic leave-of-absence from his faculty positions at Broad, MIT and Harvard to serve as White House Science Advisor to President Joseph R. Biden following the inauguration.
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President-elect Joseph Biden has selected two MIT faculty leaders Broad Institute Director Eric Lander and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber for top science and technology posts in his administration.
Lander has been named Presidential Science Advisor, a position he will assume soon after Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. He has also been nominated as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a position that requires Senate confirmation.
Biden intends to elevate the Presidential Science Advisor, for the first time in history, to be a member of his Cabinet.