David A Scheinberg MD

Summary

• David A. Scheinberg, M.D., Ph.D. is currently Vincent Astor Chair, and Chairman, Molecular Pharmacology, Sloan Kettering Institute. He also founded and Chairs the Center for Experimental Therapeutics, and founded and was Chair of the Nanotechnology Center from 2010 to 2014. He is additionally Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Co-chair of the Pharmacology graduate program at the Weill-Cornell Medical College and Professor in the Gerstner-Sloan Kettering Graduate School at MSKCC. He is a founder and Director of the Therapeutics Discovery Institute, a non-profit drug discovery corporation formed with Weill Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University and Sloan Kettering Institute; and founder and advisor to Bridge Medicines, a for-profit drug discovery corporation formed with the same three institutions. From 1992 until 2003, he was Chief of the Leukemia Service at Memorial Hospital. He has been elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the American Association of Physicians (AAP), and the Interurban Club. His other awards include the Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Science Professorship, the Lucille P. Markey Scholarship, The Emil J. Freireich Award, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Translational Investigator Awards, and CapCure Awards. In 2013, Nature Biotech recognized him as one of the top 20 Translational Scientists in the world. He is an advisor to charitable foundations and cancer centers and sits on the Boards of Directors of public and private biotech companies. Dr. Scheinberg is a physician-scientist, specializing in the care of patients with leukemia and also investigating new therapeutic approaches to cancer, both in the hospital and in the laboratory. The focus of his research is on the discovery and development of novel, specific immuno-therapeutic agents. This includes monoclonal antibodies that target cell surface or intracellular proteins of cancers and targeted radiopharmaceuticals.