JUDY KEEN was named director of scientific affairs of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
Keen will work to develop and implement initiatives that promote clinical, translational and basic radiation research, with the ultimate goal of advancing both science and evidence-based patient care throughout the radiation oncology community—including managing various funding mechanisms offered by ASTRO, such as its junior faculty awards and seed grants, as well as finding and promoting opportunities from external funding agencies to share with ASTRO members.
Keen will also serve as ASTRO’s primary scientific liaison to internal and external partners involved in biomedical research, including the ASTRO Science Council, federal agencies, other medical societies, coalitions, the biopharmaceutical industry, and policymakers.
Prior to joining ASTRO, Keen was director of research collaborations for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. Before NBCC, she worked at NCI, first as a health science analyst in the Office of Science Planning and Assessment, then as program director for the NIH Genotype Tissue Expression project within the Biorepository and Biospecimen Research Branch. The GTEx project included curating a collection of genomic and clinical data from more than 900 donors that was designed to explore genetic variability in humans and the changes that lead to disease.
Keen also spent several years as an assistant professor in the department of medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
