Director Early Therapeutics
City of Hope National Medical Center
Duarte, California, United States
MIGUEL VILLALONA CALERO, M.D.
Pinkus Professor and Director Early Phase Therapeutics Program
Department of Medical Oncology Therapeutics Research
City of Hope National Medical Center
Dr. Villalona Calero received his medical degree (magna cum laude) from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Kings County Hospital Center, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. He subsequently completed fellowships in Medical Oncology at the University of Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, Minn., and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y. In addition, he completed a fellowship in drug development at the Institute for Drug Development/Cancer Therapy Research Center, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. Dr. Villalona was previously Deputy Director and Chief Scientific officer at Miami Cancer Institute, as well as the Dorothy M. Davies Chair in Cancer Research, tenured Professor and the director of the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is internationally recognized for his work in the areas of lung cancer and developmental therapeutics, designing new and more effective anticancer agents. Dr. Villalona is an inducted fellow from the American Association of the Advancement of Science and the American College of Physicians. His area of main expertise is in translating laboratory science to clinical trials in cancer patients. Over the last few years, he has been interested in genomic driven therapy, in ways of targeting deficiencies in DNA repair with agents that target alternative mechanisms of repair, and in novel ways to use the immune system to target cancer. He has led/or is leading clinical trials and extensive correlative and preclinical work in these areas
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Thursday, November 2, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
