Jim Mulé

Jim is Associate Center Director, the U.S. Senator Connie Mack (ret.) & Family Endowed Chair for Melanoma Research and Treatment, and Director of Cell-based Therapies at the Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida. He is recognized for his research and clinical trial contributions to cancer immunotherapy, particularly in melanoma. His translational work in this area has helped to develop new treatments for advanced cancer patients. He has published nearly 200 articles. Jim serves on Advisory Boards of numerous biotechnology and pharma companies as well as investment funds (e.g., OncoPep, Fulgent Diagnostics, UbiVac, Lion Biotech, Orpheus Therapeutics, Vault Pharma, Celgene, Select BioVenture Partners, Noble Life Science Partners, among others). Jim remains a long-standing special government employee to the FDA (CDER and CBER) and the NCI. He was Chair of the Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapy Advisory Committee of CBER, FDA. He currently serves on the advisory boards of several NCI-designated Cancer Centers and was a member of the NCI Director’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC-A). Jim also serves on the Editorial Boards of several peer-reviewed journals, including Scientific Reports (nature.com), Journal of Immunotherapy, and Cancer Immunology Research (AACR). Jim received his professional degrees from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He then received his formal postgraduate training at the Surgery Branch, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, where he became a Senior Investigator with tenure. Jim moved to Palo Alto, CA, where he helped to launch and scientifically direct two biotechnology companies and was also an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan to become the Director of the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Maude T. Lane Endowed Professor of Surgery with tenure, Department of Surgery, and Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine.