Breast Cancer Discovery

Jennifer Pietenpol promoted to new position; Ben Ho Park named Cancer Center director

VUMC’s Pietenpol, Shyr named AACR Fellows

Vanderbilt’s Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, and Yu Shyr, PhD, have been inducted as fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.

Park named director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, deputy director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named the center’s new director.

Pietenpol named chief scientific and strategy officer

Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Benjamin F. Byrd Jr. Professor of Oncology and Executive Vice President for Research for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is stepping down on June 30 from her long-held role as the Cancer Center’s director to focus on a combined leadership role for VUMC as chief scientific and strategy officer (CSSO).

‘Multi-omics’ reveals treatment option for breast cancer subtype