William Dahut Named Deputy Director of NCI's Center for Cancer Research ► NCI Cancer Bulletin for June 26, 2012 - National Cancer Institute

NCI Cancer Bulletin for June 26, 2012 - National Cancer Institute

William Dahut Named Deputy Director of NCI's Center for Cancer Research

Dr. William Dahut has been named deputy director of NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR). In this role, he will provide administrative and scientific oversight to a group of CCR laboratories and branches. He will also advise the CCR director and scientific director for clinical research on strategy, priority setting, resource allocation, and policy development.

Dr. William Dahut

After joining NCI’s Medicine Branch in 1998 as head of the prostate cancer clinic, Dr. Dahut later became chief of the Genitourinary/Gynecological Clinical Research Section in what is now the Medical Oncology Branch.
Dr. Dahut will continue his role as clinical director of CCR, a position he has filled since 2009. In that role, Dr. Dahut oversees CCR’s clinical operations, including patient recruitment, clinical protocol review, management of inpatient units and outpatient clinics, human subjects protection, quality of patient care, and data management support.
Dr. Dahut’s primary research interest is the development of novel treatments for adenocarcinoma of the prostate.