Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD, FACP, has been appointed Professor of Oncology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, US. He is also Director of the Early Cancer Therapeutics Program and Director of Global Oncology at Mayo’s three sites in Arizona, Florida, and Minnesota. Dr. Adjei is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology and previously was Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine and the Katherine Anne Gioia Chair in Cancer Medicine at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.