Attila Seyhan PhD

Attila A. Seyhan, Ph.D. is the Director of Translational Oncology Operations at the Cancer Center at Brown University, the Joint Program in Cancer Biology, Brown University, and Lifespan Health System, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor (Research), at the Laboratory of Translational Oncology and Experimental Cancer Therapeutics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI.

He manages and promotes multiple initiatives, including the development of investigator-initiated clinical trials and other translational protocols, protocol writing and manuscript preparation, organization of translational medicine events, support for translational requests for application (RFAs), and grant preparation and submissions. He also works with industry to follow through on investigator-initiated basic and translational letters of intent (LOIs) and concepts. This work will involve collaboration with clinicians, scientists, regulatory personnel, administrators, tech transfer office staff, the grants management office, institutional review board (IRB), institutional advancement, and external entities.

His most recent position was Director of Translational Medicine Operations, Associate Research Professor, Translational Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center / Temple University. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes at Florida Hospital in Orlando, FL, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, in Orlando (Lake Nona), FL. In addition, he served as a research affiliate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA.

In addition to academia, Dr. Seyhan has spent significant time in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, having served in leading roles as Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA., Principal Scientist and Head of Functional Genomics at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in Collegeville, PA, Senior scientist II at Open Biosystems/Thermo Fisher in Huntsville, AL., Dharmacon/ GE Healthcare in Lafayette, CO., and SomaGenics, Inc., in Santa Cruz, CA.