Philip Tofilon PhD

Dr. Tofilon received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois in 1977. He began his graduate training at UCSF in pharmacology and then moved with his thesis advisor to the University of Nebraska Medical Center where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. Dr. Tofilon returned to UCSF as a postdoctoral fellow in the Brain Tumor Research Center where he began to focus his research on radiobiology. In 1984, he joined the Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor in 1996 with a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. In June of 2001, Dr. Tofilon relocated to NCI as chief of the newly created Molecular Radiation Therapeutics Branch, RRP, DCTD. In May of 2006, he accepted a position as Professor/Member in the Drug Discovery Department, Moffitt Cancer Center. Finally, in January 2011 he returned to NCI as an investigator in the Radiation Oncology Branch.