Jyoti Patel will join Northwestern Medicine as medical director of Thoracic Oncology and assistant director for Clinical Research at the Lurie Cancer Center this November. Patel, an expert in lung cancer and other thoracic cancers, will also serve as associate vice chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Medicine.
Over the course of his first six months as NCI director, Anthony Letai has contended with federal budget turbulence, a record-setting government shutdown, and concerns about the flow of over research dollars.
