Aguirre-GhisoJulio A. Albert Einstein College of MedicineUnited States

Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD is the Rose Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research, Professor of Cell Biology and among other roles, Founding Director of the Cancer Dormancy & Tumor Microenvironment Institute at the Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Aguirre-Ghiso received his PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1997 and was a Charles H. Revson Fellow at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). From 2003-2008 he was an Assistant Professor at SUNY-Albany. From 2008-2021 he grew through the ranks at ISMMS becoming Endowed Mount Sinai Chair of Cancer Biology in 2020. His research team led a paradigm shift, revealing novel cancer biology that diverges from the notion that cancer is perpetually proliferating. His team discovered that reciprocal crosstalk between disseminated tumor cells and the microenvironment regulates the inter-conversion between dormancy and metastasis initiation and provided mechanistic understanding of how early dissemination proceeds and contributes to dormancy and metastasis. He also founded HiberCell, a company that is enabling clinical approaches to prevent and treat relapse. He served as President Elect and President of the Metastasis Research Society (2018-2022) and has served at several leadership levels at AACR and other organizations.