• AACR Interview 2011
  • PhD.

Pier Paolo Pandolfi received his M.D. in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Perugia, Italy, after having studied Philosophy at the University of Rome, Italy. He received post-graduate training at the National Institute for Medical Research and the University of London in the UK.

He became an Assistant Member of the Molecular Biology Program and the Department of Human Genetics at Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1994. Dr. Pandolfi grew through the ranks to become Member in the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute; Professor of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University; Professor, Molecular Biology in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College at Cornell University; and Head of the Molecular and Developmental Biology Laboratories at MSKCC. Dr. Pandolfi was also the incumbent of the Albert C. Foster Endowed Chair for Cancer Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Pandolfi presently holds the Reisman Endowed Chair of Medicine and is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He serves as the Associate Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center; Director, Cancer Genetics Program; and Chief, Division of Genetics in the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and is a Member of the Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

  • Recent Awards and Adknowledgments

    Dr. Pandolfi has received numerous awards including the:

  • 1. LLSA Scholar Award (1997)
  • 2. Irma T. Hirschl Trust Award
  • 3. Alexandra J. Kefalides Prize for Leukemia Research (1999)
  • 4. Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence (2000)
  • 5. Lombroso Prize for Cancer Research of the Weizmann Institute of Science (2001)
  • 6. Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Stohlman Scholar Award (2004)
  • 7. William and Linda Steere Foundation Award and the prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation (2005).
  • In 2006 Dr. Pandolfi was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians.
  • He also has recently been awarded the NIH MERIT Award for superior competence and outstanding productivity in research.