Frank McCormick

Dr. McCormick is a molecular biologist and nationally recognized research scientist in cancer biology. He currently serves as director of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has been the David A. Wood Chair of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, and an associate dean of the UCSF School of Medicine since 1997. He is also a member of the UCSF Biomedical Sciences Program and the Herbert Boyer Program in Biological Sciences. Since 1998, Prof. McCormick has served as director of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Prof. McCormick is a distinguished cancer researcher focused on signal transduction pathways in cancer cells and ways of treating cancer based on these pathways. He is an expert on tumor suppressor genes and the ras pathway.

Prof. McCormick founded Onyx Pharmaceuticals in 1992 and served as the Chief Scientific Officer from 1992 to 1996. He served as Vice President of Therapeutic Research at Chiron Corporation from 1991 to 1992. Prof. McCormick was a Vice President of Discovery Research at Cetus Oncology Corporation from 1981 to 1990, Director of Molecular Biology from 1981 to 1990, and Vice President of Research from 1990 to 1991. He served a variety of senior scientist positions at several biotechnology companies and hospitals, such as Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., Exelixis Inc., the Jackson Laboratory, the National Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Lawrence where he has been the Senior Advisor of Research and Development since 2003.