Roberts named new Basic Sciences Division director; Groudine increases center leadership role

Brief

Dr. Jim Roberts has been named the new director of the Basic Sciences Division, replacing Dr. Mark Groudine, who is now devoting more time to his role as deputy director of the center.

Groudine, the only faculty member who has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, has served as division director since 1995. Groudine has assumed a leadership role in center planning, faculty recruitment, shared resources, Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium and UW relations, and interdivisional issues. This will allow Dr. Lee Hartwell, center president and director, to devote more time to fund raising, early detection research policy, and national and international collaborations.

Roberts, a world-renowned expert on the cell cycle and cancer, has been a member of the division since 1988. Associate division directors Drs. Linda Buck and Jonathan Cooper, who replace outgoing associate directors Drs. Susan Parkhurst and Barry Stoddard, will assist him in his new role.

Hartwell, thanked Groudine, Parkhurst and Stoddard for their outstanding dedication to the division and the center, and voiced optimism for the challenges ahead.

"The center has a terrific leadership team that will be further strengthened by these changes," he said. "I really appreciate the willingness of Mark Groudine, Jim Roberts, Linda Buck and Jon Cooper to assume these added responsibilities on behalf of the center. I hope the areas to which I'm devoting my time will enhance the center as well."

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