Carlos Cordon-Cardo

Dr. Cordon-Cardo is a co-founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of PreciseDx and currently serves as Professor and Chair System-Wide of the Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. From 1987 to 2006 Dr. Cordon-Cardo was a faculty member in the Department of Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he created the Division of Molecular Pathology and served as its first Director; scaling the academic ranks from Assistant to Professor of Pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University.

A pioneer of the oncologic molecular pathology discipline, Dr. Cordon-Cardo has helped establish a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of human cancers and new targets for cancer therapeutics, enhancing the vision of personalized medicine. Dr. Cordon-Cardo earned his medical degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1980), and his Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Genetics from Cornell University (1985).