Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, Professor & Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, UCLA Department of Medicine
Dr. Steven M. Dubinett is Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) Lung Cancer Research Program. He has extensive experience in translational investigation, academic administration, mentorship and peer review. He is jointly appointed as Professor in three departments: Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology. At UCLA since 1988, he is a member of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Molecular Biology Institute, and the California NanoSystems Institute. Building on original discoveries relevant to inflammation in the pathogenesis of lung cancer, he has developed a translational research program which now utilizes these laboratory-based discoveries in the translational research and clinical environment. Dr. Dubinett has received continuous peer-reviewed federal funding for translational lung cancer research for more than 20 years. As a member of NCI.s Translational Research Working Group, Dr. Dubinett participated in designing pathways to clinical goals: developmental pathways that characterize the transformation of scientific discoveries into new clinical modalities for oncology. Dr. Dubinett serves as the Director for Biomarker Development for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and oversees biospecimen utilization in the context of clinical trials. He currently serves as the Chair of the Research Evaluation Panel for biospecimen utilization for the American College of Radiology Imaging Network/National Lung Screening Trial (ACRIN/NLST). He also is a member of the FDA Cellular, Tissue & Gene Therapies Advisory Committee.
