CHARLES DRAKE joined New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center as director of genitourinary oncology and associate director for clinical research at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and co-director of Columbia’s Cancer Immunotherapy Program. Drake is a physician-scientist with a Ph.D. in immunology, whose work focuses on understanding and fighting advanced-stage cancers with the immune system....
Richard Pazdur, founding director of FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and long-time FDA visionary, has accepted the top job at FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research following George F. Tidmarsh’s dramatic ouster from the position.
