Robert A. Weinberg

Dr. Robert A. Weinberg is a Founding Member of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research in the Department of Biology at MIT. He is world renowned for his expertise and vision in the basic understanding of the mechanisms that underlie cancers. Dr. Weinberg is the author or editor of five books and more than 350 journal articles. He is an elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his honors is the National Academy of Sciences/U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology, the Sloan Prize of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, the Bristol-Myers Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research, the Landon Prize of the American Association for Cancer Research, the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Keio Medical Foundation Prize, 1997 National Medal of Science and the Otto Warburg Medal in 2007. Dr. Weinberg is Co-Founder of Verastem Oncology and serves as the Chair of the company’s Scientific Advisory Board.