Chandra Belani MD

Chandra P. Belani is Deputy Director of the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute (PSHCI), and Miriam Beckner is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine, at Penn State Hershey Medical Center & College of Medicine. Dr. Belani directs translational and clinical investigations across all programs and the disease teams at the PSHCI. Dr. Belani is internationally renowned for his accomplishments in the area of lung cancer therapeutics and new drug development. Dr. Belani plays a key role in moving promising discoveries for the treatment of all solid malignancies from the laboratory to the clinic and serves as a leader for early-phase clinical trials at the PSHCI. His research efforts have led to changes in the treatment paradigms for lung cancer.