MD An­der­son­'s Patrick Hwu to helm Mof­fitt Can­cer Cen­ter; Af­ter Rock­well Med­ical ouster, Robert Chioi­ni gets an­oth­er chance to lead

→ The Mof­fitt Can­cer Cen­ter in Tam­pa has found its next pres­i­dent and CEO af­ter the im­broglio sur­round­ing the de­par­ture of Alan List.

Patrick Hwu, the head of can­cer med­i­cine at MD An­der­son Can­cer Cen­ter, has been tapped to lead Mof­fitt al­most ex­act­ly 8 months fol­low­ing the mass res­ig­na­tions of List, cen­ter di­rec­tor Thomas Sell­ers and 4 oth­er re­searchers for con­flict of in­ter­est re­gard­ing their work in Chi­na, one of sev­er­al high-pro­file ex­am­ples that in­clude Har­vard pro­fes­sor Charles Lieber.

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