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Elaine Mardis

Mar 20, 2018

Elaine Mardis has been named president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2018-19. Her appointment will start next month in conjunction with the AACR annual meeting in Chicago, and she will become AACR president in April of 2019. Mardis holds the Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair of Genomic Medicine and is the co-executive director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and a professor of pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. She holds a bachelor's degree and a PhD from the University of Oklahoma.  

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