Dr. Cheresh is Professor of Pathology at Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego. Prior to relocating his laboratory in 2005, Dr. Cheresh was a professor in the Departments of Immunology and Vascular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, focusing on the role of adhesion receptors and growth factors in the angiogenesis of tumors. Dr. Cheresh received his doctorate in Immunology from the University of Miami in Florida. In 1982 he joined The Scripps Research Institute as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Immunology. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1985 and to Professor in the Departments of Immunology and Vascular Biology in 1996. Dr. Cheresh is the recipient of several awards including the 15th Hans Linder Memorial Lecture from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, the XXIII Annual Myron Karon Memorial Lectureship from the University of Southern California, the Robert Flynn Professorship Award from Tufts University School of Medicine, and he was a recipient of The American Cancer Society Faculty Research Award and a Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health. He currently serves as Associate Editor for several major scientific journals and is on the advisory board of several others. He has been a member of the Pathobiochemistry Study Section of NIH, and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Keystone Symposia.