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Theodorescu Named Director at Colorado
Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, a cancer researcher and urologic surgeon, has been named director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, the Rocky Mountain region’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. Theodorescu will start his new job on July 1, 2010.
Theodorescu will lead the efforts of the UCCC consortium’s 432 members in basic, translational and clinical research, clinical cancer care for humans and companion animals, cancer prevention and control and cancer survivorship. He will also coordinate UCCC’s research funding portfolio, which increased by 25 percent in 2009 to $138.9 million. He will hold the $2 million Paul Bunn Chair in Cancer Research, named after the lung cancer pioneer who founded UCCC in 1988.
UCCC, headquartered on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, is a national leader in personalized cancer medicine and cancer biotechnology, said Dr. Richard Krugman, School of Medicine dean and vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Colorado Denver.
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Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, a cancer researcher and urologic surgeon, has been named director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, the Rocky Mountain region’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. Theodorescu will start his new job on July 1, 2010.
Theodorescu will lead the efforts of the UCCC consortium’s 432 members in basic, translational and clinical research, clinical cancer care for humans and companion animals, cancer prevention and control and cancer survivorship. He will also coordinate UCCC’s research funding portfolio, which increased by 25 percent in 2009 to $138.9 million. He will hold the $2 million Paul Bunn Chair in Cancer Research, named after the lung cancer pioneer who founded UCCC in 1988.
UCCC, headquartered on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, is a national leader in personalized cancer medicine and cancer biotechnology, said Dr. Richard Krugman, School of Medicine dean and vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Colorado Denver.
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