Craig B. Thompson
President & Chief Executive Officer
biotechnology
Charles River Laboratories
Switzerland
Biography
Craig B. Thompson, M.D. has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since 2010. Previously, Dr. Thompson held various roles at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; on the Board of Directors of Merck & Co., Inc.; as a member of the Lasker Prize Jury; and as Associate Editor of the journals Cell,Immunity, and Cancer Cell. Dr. Thompson holds a number of patents related to immunotherapy and apoptosis, and is a founder of three biotechnology companies. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Association of Physicians. Dr. Thompson has published more than 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than 85 reviews.
Research Interest
biotechnology
