Student Research Day

Thank you for a great Student Research Day!

We are honored to have had Dr. Norman E. Sharpless as our 2024 Student Research Day Keynote Speaker. His talk is titled: “From Aerophobia to FDA Approval: The Story of Pharmacological Quiescence“.

Please see below for more information about Dr. Sharpless.

Norman E. (Ned) Sharpless, MD, is the Professor of Cancer Policy and Innovation at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is interested in cancer therapeutics, novel cancer diagnostics and the intersection of healthcare policy and cancer care.

Dr. Sharpless is the former Director of the National Cancer Institute (2017-2022) and Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2019). Before that appointment, Dr. Sharpless was the Director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (2014-2017), and a Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill (2012-2017).

Dr. Sharpless was a Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, earning his undergraduate degree in mathematics (with distinction) and his medical degree (with honors and distinction) from the UNC School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and his clinical and research fellowship in hematology and oncology at Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care in Boston.