Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou named clinical development leader of Pfizer Oncology

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Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou was named clinical development leader of Pfizer Oncology and will join Pfizer Sept. 23.

Papadimitrakopoulou specializes in personalized genomics-driven cancer therapies, immunotherapies, translational research and cancer chemoprevention. She comes to Pfizer from MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she was professor of medicine in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology. There, she led clinical and translational research projects focused on the development of biomarker-based targeted therapies to overcome therapeutic resistance in advanced disease.

Papadimitrakopoulou was recently a member of the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee and has served as co-principal investigator on the Master Lung Protocol (Lung-MAP) study, an umbrella trial simultaneously testing multiple precision medicines in squamous cell lung cancer, supported by NCI and run through patient advocacy organizations, pharmaceutical companies (including Pfizer) and public institutions.

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