Jennifer Pietenpol

Jennifer Pietenpol is Chief Scientific and Strategic Officer, Executive Vice-President for Research, and the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Pietenpol additionally serves as the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer.

Pietenpol's early research focused on the signaling of the p53 gene within the breast cancer family, specifically Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Pietenpol used a combined approach of bioinformatics and genetics to make discoveries on the signaling behavior of the p53 gene family.

Pietenpol serves as an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012) and the American Association for Cancer Research Academy (2022). In 2008 she was appointed by President George Bush to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board for the National Cancer Institute. In 2016 she was selected to serve on then Vice-President Joe Biden's National Cancer Moonshot Program's Blue Ribbon Panel. Provided by Wikipedia