Dr. Jerald Radich is a Member of the Clinical Research Division, the Director of the Molecular Oncology Lab, and the Kurt Enslein Endowed Chair at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is Chair of the Leukemia Translational Medicine Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group. He was the inaugural Chair of the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Health Leukemia Steering Committee and a past member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH Genome Research Institute. He is the past chair of the CML Committee of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a member of the European Leukemia Network CML committees, and is on the Scientific Board of the International CML Foundation and the Max Foundation. He currently leads the Laboratory Committee of the NCI AML Precision Medicine Initiative and leads the Foundation of the NIH’s program in measurable residual disease in AML. Dr. Radich’s laboratory research centers on the molecular biology of response, resistance, and progression in adult and chronic leukemia. In addition, the CLIA Molecular Oncology Lab provides the molecular diagnostic support for many institutional, U.S. Intergroup, international, and pharmaceutical trials. He was awarded the International CML Foundation Award in 2017 and the Washington Global Health Alliance Partnership Award in 2019 for his lab’s work on diagnosing and monitoring CML in the developing world.
