Acs Research - Theorylab

Tom Lynch, MD, is president and director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. A former American Cancer Society grantee, Dr. Lynch is a physician scientist who has taken care of thousands of lung cancer patients and helped conduct translational research that has changed the field. Early in his career he was part of a transdisciplinary research team that discovered how targeted therapies could help lung cancer patients with mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene. Dr. Lynch was most recently chief scientific officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Previously he was CEO of Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, director of Yale Cancer Center, physician-in-chief at Yale’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, chief of hematology-oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. 0:53 – What he enjoys most about his new job 1:52 – The very important role of fundamental, basic science and the promise of transdisciplinary research 4:28 – Two cancer r