Sagar Lonial, chief medical officer for Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and chairman of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, was presented with the Anne and Bernard Gray Family Chair in Cancer.
The endowment honors the life of Gray’s sister, Karen Ammons Howell, who died of breast cancer.
Lonial is an expert in the biology and care of patients with multiple myeloma. His most recent research focuses on combining novel agents as therapy for myeloma patients and how to identify new targets and treatment strategies for patients with high-risk myeloma.
He was principal investigator on two large studies of novel monoclonal antibodies, both of which led to FDA approval. The research team he developed has contributed to all the major FDA approvals for myeloma therapeutics over the past decade. Lonial is currently leading a global genome sequencing study for patients with newly diagnosed myeloma.
