John Kirkwood, M.D. is Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Research of the Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the Director of the Melanoma Center of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute's Melanoma Center, as well as Chairman of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group's Melanoma Committee. His laboratory and translational research has focused upon the analysis of the immune response to melanoma; he has led over 100 clinical trials of a variety of cytokines, antibodies, interferons and vaccines over the past 25 years. He received his MD from Yale University in 1973 and his AB in Biochemistry from Oberlin College in 1969. |