Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D.

Dr. Cantley is a faculty member in the Department of Cancer Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Over the course of his career, he has made significant advances in cancer research, stemming from his discovery of the signaling pathway PI3K in 1984. His pioneering research has resulted in revolutionary treatments for cancer, diabetes and autoimmune diseases. The author of over 400 original papers and more than 50 book chapters and review articles, Dr. Cantley is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He previously served as Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, where he became chief of Harvard’s new Division of Signal Transduction and a founding member of its Department of Systems Biology in 2002. In 2007, he was appointed director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center. In 2013 he was appointed Director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and in 2022 he returned to Harvard Medical School to assume his current position at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.