About Us
Other Professional Activities
Current
- Board of Scientific Advisors, National Cancer Institute
- Co-founder and member, Scientific Advisory Board, MetaMark Genetics Inc.
- Scientific Advisory Board, Sidney Kimmel Foundation
- Board of Directors, Foundation for Advanced Cancer Studies
- Editorial Board, Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer
- Editorial Board, Neoplasia
- Editorial Board, Nature Reviews Cancer
- Editorial Board, Molecular Cancer Research
- Editorial Board, Cancer Cell
- Editorial Board, Genes and Development
- Editorial Board, Aging
- Member, Editorial Academy, International Journal of Oncology
- Editorial Board, Genes and Cancer
- Editorial Board, Genome Integrity
- Editorial Advisory Panel, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group
- Editorial Board, Cancer Discovery
- Principal investigator, Glioblastoma Multiforme PO1
- Principal investigator, Pancreas Ductal Adenocarcinoma PO1
- Co-director, Gastrointestinal Cancer SPORE
- Co-principal investigator, NCI Mouse Models of Human Cancer Cosortium UO1
Past
- Chair, Section 2, Membership Committee, Institute of Medicine
- Co-chair, External Advisory Board, The Human Cancer Genome Atlas Project, NCI
- Co-chair, Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium, NCI
- Vice-chair, Damon Runyon Scientific Advisory Board
- Vice-chair, Section 2, Membership Committee, Institute of Medicine
- Chair, Damon Runyon Scientific Advisory Board
- Chair, Goldhirsh Foundation Scientific Advisory Board
- Chair, AACR Centennial Meeting
- Scientific Advisory Board, Lustgarten Foundation
- Co-founder, director, Scientific Advisory Board, Eden Therapeutics Inc.
- Director and advisor, GSK Oncology Franchise
- Scientific Advisory Board, Abbott Pharmaceuticals
- Scientific Advisory Board, Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Scientific Advisory Board, Epizyme Inc.
- Scientific Advisory Board, Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Conference, symposia organization
- Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Mechanisms and Models of Cancer, co-organizer, 2008
- “One-Hundred Years of Mouse Genetics” Symposium, HMS, organizer, 2007
- AACR Annual Meeting, chair and co-organizer (100th anniversary meeting), 2007
- AACR, Conference on Mouse Models of Cancer, co-organizer, 2006
- Banff, Alberta, Canada, co-organizer, 2005
- Keystone Symposia, “The role of microenvironment in tumor induction and progression/cancer and development,” 2005
- AACR, Conference on Mouse Models of Cancer, co-organizer, 2003
- Lustgarten Foundation, Pancreatic Cancer, co-organizer, 2002
- Forbeck Foundation, Thinktank, co-organizer, 2002
- Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Molecular Genetics of Aging, co-organizer, 2002
- Keystone Symposia Conference on Genomics and Genetics of Senescence and Cancer, co-organizer, 2002
- AACR, Conference on Mouse Models of Cancer, co-organizer, 2000
- AACR, Conference on Mouse Models of Cancer, co-organizer, 1999
- 6th Annual IUBMB Symposium, organizer and chair, 1999
- 14th Annual Oncogene Meeting, co-organizer, 1998
- AACR Telomerase Symposium, chair, 1998
- 13th Annual Oncogene Meeting, session chair, 1997
- AACR Education Committee, 1997
- NCI Mechanisms in B Cell Neoplasia, session chair, 1996
Videos
Ronald DePinho, M.D., addresses
MD Anderson employees for the first time:
DePinho discusses various aspects of his professional and personal life:
In the News
- Take Five: An Ambitious Plan for Curing Cancer in a Businesslike Way Is in the Works (The Economist)
- Leader in the Cancer Fight, and Son of an Illegal Imigrant (New York Times)
- Cancer Research: Past, Present and Future (Nature Reviews Cancer)
- Ronald DePinho: The TT Interview (Texas Tribune)
- DePinho: Opposing HPV Vaccine 'Unethical' (Texas Tribute)
- DePinho Brings Rock Star Aura to
MD Anderson (Houston Chronicle) - New MD Anderson President on His Evolution as a Physician-Scientist (Oncology Times)
- Incoming MD Anderson Chief Sets Challenge for Institution (Houston Chronicle)
- "We're Going to Kick Cancer Butt" (Culture Map)
- MD Anderson's New President Brings Stephen Colbert Cred (Culture Map)