Dr. Sam Gambhir Named the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Endowed Professor in Cancer Research

Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor of radiology and bioengineering, was appointed the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Endowed Professorship in Cancer Research in June of 2009. At Stanford, he leads several large NCI-funded programs and serves as chief of the Nuclear Medicine Division; director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS); and head of the new Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection. To read more about his selection for this endowed professorship, please access Stanford University news at http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june17/med-endow-061709.html.
The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) was established in 1971 by Mr. Daniel K. Ludwig, who also established the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research. In 2006, funds from this trust created Ludwig Centers "for the pursuit of basic science and research into the advancement of knowledge regarding the causes, origin, prevention and cure of cancer and other neoplastic diseases" at six leading academic institutions in the United States: University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School; Johns Hopkins University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and Stanford University Medical Center. At Stanford, these funds support two professorships.

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