Lance Liotta, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief
Laboratory of Pathology and Section on Tumor
Invasion and Metastases
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
www.nci.nih.gov

Dr. Lance Liotta received his undergraduate degree at Hiram College in 1969 and then completed an M.D./Ph.D. program at Case Western Reserve University in 1976. His Ph.D. is in biomedical engineering, with cancer metastasis as his Ph.D. thesis topic.

Dr. Liotta is Chief of the Laboratory of Pathology and Section on Tumor Invasion and Metastases for the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also Chair of the NIH Radiation Safety Committee.

Prior work experience includes training as a resident in anatomic pathology at the NIH in the Laboratory of Pathology and becoming Chief of that laboratory in 1982.

Dr. Liotta is also the former Deputy Director for Intramural Research at the NIH.