Lung Cancer

Lung cancer has seen a paradigm shift in disease treatment over the past few years, with major changes in the therapeutic drugs now available as well as in the overall management approach.  For targeted and immunotherapeutic approaches, understanding the biology of acquired resistance is a key strategy that has yielded productive advances in the subsequent treatment.  Future advances also include incorporating biomarker data obtained from solid and liquid biopsies, as well as combination of immunotherapy with radiotherapy and in special populations such patients with CNS involvement.

Anne Chiang is an Associate Professor at Yale University's School of Medicine and a member of the Yale Cancer Center's Developmental Therapeutics and Thoracic Oncology Programs.  She serves as Chief Network Officer and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale.  Chiang earned an MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Harvard University and an A.B. from Princeton University in Molecular Biology.

Roy Herbst is the Ensign Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Professor of Pharmacology at Yale University's School of Medicine. He serves as Chief of Medical Oncology and the Associate Director for Translational Research at the Yale Cancer Center. Herbst earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Yale, his M.D. at Cornell University Medical College and his Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology at The Rockefeller University. He has authored more than 275 publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters.