RaymondDuboisMDPh.D.(He/Him)

Summary

• Raymond N. DuBois (Ray), M.D., Ph.D., served as Dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (2016-2022), isa Distinguished University Professor & is currently director of Hollings Cancer Center--Charleston. From 2007 to 2012, he was the Founding Provost and Executive Vice President at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center (1991-2007), he was Director of a Clinical Di and Director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. In addition, Dr. DuBois continues to serve as editor-in-chief for Cancer Prevention Research (AACR).
  
  DuBois is an internationally renowned expert known for his work elucidating the role of inflammation and inflammatory mediators in the progression of colon cancer and other gastrointestinal malignancies. His work and other studies led to a better understanding of the molecular basis for anti-inflammatory agents, like aspirin, in reducing cancer risk.
  
  DuBois is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA), and the Royal College of Physicians (London). In 2019, he received the AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research.
  
  Other significant awards for his cancer research include the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Research Award, the Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Cancer Prize, and the Anthony Dipple Carcinogenesis Award from Oxford University Press. He is also a past president of the AACR, the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, and the International Society for Gastrointestinal Cancer. He is also an elected member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He also Chaired the NCI BSC and was a member of the NCI BSA.