"Speeding the Clinical Translation of Discovery"
This annual address featured IU School of Medicine Dean Jay Hess, one of the nation’s leaders in epigenetics of leukemia. In his address, ‘Speeding the Clinical Translation of Discovery,’ Dr. Hess shared some of his experiences in early stage drug discovery in academia and in establishing sequencing-based diagnostics to improve care for cancer patients. As the genetic abnormalities that underlie cancer are being defined, new opportunities arise to develop more targeted and effective therapies, however bottlenecks remain in clinical translation. Dr. Hess became the 10th Dean of the IU School of Medicine (IUSM) and Vice President for University Clinical Affairs at Indiana University on September 1st, 2013. He joined IUSM after eight years at the University of Michigan, where he made major strides in advancing translational research, pathology informatics and sequencing-based diagnostics.