Senior Vice President, Memorial Hospital, Translational Research

Ross Levine is the Senior Vice President, Translational Research, Memorial Hospital at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK). He is also an Attending Physician on the Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, the Edward P. Evans Chair in MDS and a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Levine earned his A.B. from Harvard College and a M.D. from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Levine served as a Resident in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and as a Hematology-Oncology Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His laboratory focuses on elucidating the genetic basis of myeloid malignancies, and using this knowledge to improve outcomes for patients with these disorders. Moreover, as a physician scientist, his laboratory has a specific interest in translating this knowledge back to the clinic and in participating in the preclinical and clinical evaluation of targeted therapies for leukemia patients. He has been honored with the Dameshek Prize from the American Society of Hematology, the Boyer Award for Clinical Investigation from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and a NCI Outstanding Investigator R35 Award.