Michele Carbone, MD, PhD

(Media release) — A leading mesothelioma researcher has been named the new director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii by the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, a group of 15 board members who preside over the internal structure, management and operation of the university.

Michele Carbone, MD, PhD started a three-year term on September 1, 2009, having served as the interim director, a position he assumed upon the resignation of the previous director in December 2008.

Before working with the University of Hawaii in 2006, Dr. Carbone worked at the Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Deemed an authority on malignant mesothelioma, a rare cancer related to asbestos exposure, Dr. Carbone and his team have comprehensively studied the impact of genetics, environmental carcinogens and viral infections on mesothelioma development and have subsequently worked to develop preventative and therapeutic treatments. Read the rest of this entry »