LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute has recruited globally renowned cancer scientist Thales “PapaG” Papagiannakopoulos, PhD, to join its faculty as a professor beginning in September 2026. Papagiannakopoulos has served as a faculty member at NYU Grossman School of Medicine since 2015, where he is currently a tenured associate professor in the Department of Pathology at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine and the Perlmutter Cancer Center. He will bring to Salk additional expertise in cancer metabolism, cancer immunology, and tumor-host communications, opening new opportunities for collaboration within Salk’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) Designated Cancer Center and across the Institute.
Cancer research expert Thales “PapaG” Papagiannakopoulos, PhD, joins the Salk Institute.
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