Dennis J. Slamon

Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D., joined our Board in March 2014. Dr. Slamon has served as Director of Clinical/Translational Research at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center since June 1995 and has served as leader of the Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program at UCLA since its establishment in 1991. Since May 1996, Dr. Slamon has been a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UCLA Department of Medicine and Executive Vice Chair for research for UCLA’s Department of Medicine. He also serves as Director of the medical advisory board for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, a research and fundraising organization that promotes advances in colorectal cancer, and he is member of the board of Translational Research in Oncology, a global, non-profit, academic clinical research organization. A 1970 B.A. honors graduate in biology from Washington & Jefferson College and a 1975 graduate of the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, Dr. Slamon earned his Ph.D. in cell biology that same year. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, becoming chief resident in 1978. One year later, he became a Fellow in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UCLA where he currently serves on the Faculty of Medicine.