Leadership
Meet the individuals who manage the overall direction and strategy of the Brown Cancer Center.
Sidebar
From the Director
Dr. Jason A Chesney, MD, PhD
With generous support from the Humana Foundation, Kosair Charities, the UofL School of Medicine, the UofL President and our very generous benefactors throughout the Louisville community, the Brown Cancer Center is making critical contributions in clinical care throughout the region and, through pioneering, world-class research, to cancer patients worldwide. Much of the research performed in our laboratories over the past 20 years is reaching clinical trials in humans, where new cancer drugs and diagnostics are actively being tested.
The goal of our groundbreaking translational research programs is to bring laboratory discoveries to patients in the clinic.
To achieve this, we are:
- Identifying, developing, and rigorously evaluating new tools for the treatment and detection of cancer by expanding research in experimental therapeutics.
- Strengthening cutting-edge research in tumor immunology, which harnesses the immune system’s power to fight cancer.
- Building a highly community-engaged program focused on environmental carcinogenesis, cancer prevention and control to identify lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that influence cancer susceptibility and progression.
- Discovery, characterization and testing of new, highly promising, drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic procedures directly to patients through clinical trials carried out here in the BCC.
