Boris Pasche, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Medicine, director of the Division of Hematology-Oncology and deputy director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Associate director for translational research at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Contributing editor, Journal of the American Medical Association
• Editor, The Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research
• Led a study that revealed one of the first genetic links between obesity and colon cancer
• Led the discovery that decreased expression of the TGFBR1 gene is a major cause of colorectal cancer