Ronan Swords receives Pap Corps Endowed Professorship

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RONAN SWORDS received the Pap Corps Endowed Professorship in Leukemia at the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Swords is assistant professor of medicine and director of the Leukemia Program at Sylvester.

The endowment comes from The Pap Corps: Champions for Cancer Research, a volunteer organization that raises money solely for cancer research at Sylvester. The organization has donated more than $51 million to the center, including this year’s $4.5 million as part of an overall pledge of $25 million to University of Miami’s Momentum2 campaign.

Swords is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and the Royal College of Pathologists in London. He came to the U.S. in 2009 for an advanced fellowship in drug development at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Swords joined Sylvester in 2012.

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