Georgia CORE Board Member Walter J. Curran, Jr, MD Named Eminent Scholar by Georgia Research Alliance

9/11/2013

The Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) has named Walter J. Curran, Jr., MD, executive director of the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Chair in Cancer Research.

In addition to directing Georgia’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center, Curran is professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves as group chair and principal investigator of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, an NCI-funded cooperative group, a position he has held since 1997. Beginning in 2014, he will serve as one of three inaugural group chairs and principal investigators of NRG Oncology, a newly formed NCI-supported research network group.

Curran has authored or co-authored more than 600 abstracts and scholarly papers, as well as numerous presentations, reviews and book chapters. His publications have been cited more than 21,000 times. He serves as the founding secretary/treasurer of the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups and a board member of the Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education (Georgia CORE).

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