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James Heath

Apr 03, 2017

The Institute for Systems Biology named James Heath its new president, effective January 2018. The current President and ISB Cofounder Lee Hood will remain on the institute's board. Heath is the Elizabeth W. Gilloon professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, and a professor of molecular and medical pharmacology and codirector of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also is director of the NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center, which is funded by the National Cancer Institute. 

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