Posted: October 2018
Vassiliki A. Papadimitrakopoulou, MD, is the recipient of the 2018 Addario Lectureship Award presented by The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation for her groundbreaking clinical research in immunotherapy.
Dr. Papadimitrakopoulou is the Jay and Lori Eisenberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she serves as the section chief of Thoracic Medical Oncology in the department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology. Dr. Papadimitrakopoulou is co-principal investigator for the Master Lung Protocol (Lung-MAP) trial, the first of its kind to use a comprehensive genomics-driven approach to squamous cell lung cancer.
She serves as a member of the IASLC Publications Committee.