Harold L. Moses is the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Professor of Cancer Biology, Medicine and Pathology, and director emeritus at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. He was president of the American Association for Cancer Research in 1991.
Career
Moses graduated from Berea College in 1958 and from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1962 with an MD. He completed his residency at Vanderbilt and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He then served as a faculty member at Vanderbilt for five years and then at the Mayo Clinic for twelve, where he was the chair of the department of cell biology. He returned to Vanderbilt where he was the chair of cell biology and the founding director of the Vanderbilt Cancer Center. He stepped down as director in 2004.
Research
Moses' research focuses on TGF beta in cancer.
Awards
1991 Rous-Whipple Award, American Association of Pathologists
2003 Elected Member, Institute of Medicine
2003-2005 President, Association of American Cancer Institutes
2009 T J Martell Foundation Lifetime Medical Research Award
2010 T J Martell Foundation Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award
2013 Fellow of the AACR Academy
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association for Cancer Research
2016 Elected Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the AACR Academy Vanderbilt University alumni Vanderbilt University faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine