Associate Branch Chief, Pediatrics
National Cancer Inst.
Dr. Smith is Associate Branch Chief, Pediatrics, in the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP), NCI. Dr. Smith has been a member of CTEP since 1990 and during his years at CTEP has focused on developing NCI’s preclinical and clinical research programs for children with cancer. Dr. Smith serves as the Program Director and primary NCI liaison to childhood cancer researchers in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), focusing primarily on hematologic malignancies and brain cancers. He also serves as the Program Director for the Pediatric Early Phase Clinical Trials Network (PEP-CTN), the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, and the Pediatric Preclinical in Vivo Testing (PIVOT) Program. Dr. Smith is a co-leader of the NCI Moonshot Fusion Oncoproteins in Childhood Cancers Implementation Team and a member of the NCI Moonshot Pediatric Immunotherapy Implementation Team. Dr. Smith is the author or co-author of more than 230 research articles and 25 book chapters related to childhood cancer research, and he serves on the NCI PDQ Pediatric Editorial Board.
