Owen O’connor
Advisory Board
Affimed
Germany
Biography
Owen O’Connor is a Professor of Medicine and Experimental Therapeutics, Director of the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies, and Co-Program Director of the Lymphoid Development and Malignancy Program in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center. After nearly a decade at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and a number of leadership positions at prestigious institutions in New York City, most recently he has assumed a position to create a new Center devoted to the Lymphoid Malignancies at Columbia University. This center is uniquely focused on the translational aspects of lymphoma research, bringing together a truly multidisciplinary approach to blood cancer research. He has become an internationally recognized authority on the management of Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and is unique in that he has both co-invented and developed many new drugs for these diseases. Dr. O’Connor attained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Toxicology from the New York University School of Medicine, and his M.D. from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Research Interest
Biochemistry and Toxicology
