Riccardo Dalla-Favera

Dr. Dalla-Favera is Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University, and the Percy and Joanne Uris Professor of Pathology and Professor of Genetics & Development. Dr. Dalla-Favera is an expert in the field of hematology malignancies, having received his medical degree and completed his training in hematology/oncology at the University of Milan, Italy. After a residency in hematology at the University of Milan and a visiting fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Dalla-Favera spent seven years on the New York University School of Medicine faculty, before joining Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Department of Pathology, where he presently heads the University’s Cancer Center and is the Director of the Specialized Center for Research on Lymphoma at Columbia funded by the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Dr. Dalla-Favera is a distinguished investigator in the molecular genetics of cancer who has been recognized with several national awards, including the Stohlman Award from The Leukemia Society of America, and two NIH MERIT Awards, and he is an American Association of Physicians Fellow. Dr. Dalla-Favera is on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals, and has authored over 250 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.