CCR Milestones - 2019

New Faculty continued Arun Rajan, M.D. Arun Rajan, M.D., has been appointed as a Senior Clinician in the Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch. In his clinical research he develops new therapies for patients with lung cancer and thymic malignancies. Mark Roschewski, M.D. Mark Roschewski, M.D., has been appointed as a Senior Clinician in the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch. His research focuses on the management of aggressive B-cell lymphomas including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma and primary CNS lymphomas. Sergio Ruiz Macias, Ph.D. Sergio Ruiz Macias, Ph.D., has joined the Laboratory of Genome Integrity as a Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator. Dr. Ruiz Macias seeks to elucidate mechanisms of cell plasticity, pluripotency and differentiation with the goal of understanding em- bryonic development, cell transformation and cancer. Eytan Ruppin, M.D., Ph.D. Eytan Ruppin, M.D., Ph.D., has joined CCR as the Chief of the newly established Cancer Data Science Laboratory. He develops and harnesses data science approaches for the integration of multi-omics data to better understand the pathogenesis of cancer, its evolution and treatment. Samira Sadowski, M.D. Samira Sadowski, M.D., has been appointed as an Assistant Clinical Investigator in the Surgical Oncology Program. Her research will identify diagnostic and prognostic markers for endocrine tumors and develop new therapies for such tumors. Martin Schnermann, Ph.D. Martin Schnermann, Ph.D., has been awarded tenure at NIH and appointed to Senior Investigator in the Chemical Biology Laboratory. His research group designs and synthesizes the molecules needed to craft new near-infrared optical drug delivery and imaging methods. 30