The Director of the Cancer Center is responsible for overall management of the Center and its research programs. General responsibilities of the position include: allocation of space and equipment, development and management of budgets, direction of philanthropic funds, chairing the Center's Executive Committee and Leadership Group, Center membership appointments, faculty appointment recommendations, grants review and approval, and oversight of clinical cancer research activities at the Center's affiliated hospitals. The Director reports to the Dean of the Medical School and is the equivalent of a Department Chairman. As such, the Director is a full member of the Medical School's Dean's Council and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Council of Clinical Chairmen. In addition, the Director is a member of the University's Life Sciences Council which is chaired by the Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies.

Dr. Rosen was appointed to the position of Cancer Center Director in August, 1989 and is Genevieve Teuton Professor of Medicine. He completed his M.D. degree (AOA distinction) and residency at Northwestern University and subsequently a fellowship in Oncology at the National Cancer Institute before returning to Northwestern in 1981. Since 1995 he has been named one of the Best Doctors in America and since 1999 one of the Top Doctors in Chicago. He has received numerous research grants, awards, contracts and patents; has published more than 250 scientific articles; and currently serves on several editorial boards and as the editor of Cancer Treatment and Research and section editor of "Therapeutic Modialities" for Current Opinions in Oncology. Dr. Rosen is the former chairman of ECOG's Laboratory Science Committee. He is a member of all major national associations that focus on oncology and has held leadership positions in the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Association of Cancer Institutes and National Comprehensive Cancer Network. He serves of the Advisory Board of several NCI designated Cancer Centers, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America, the Multiple Myleoma Research Foundation and the Wendy Will Cancer Research Foundation. He has also served as an advisor to Great Britain's Cancer Research Campaign. Dr. Rosen was the recipient of Northwestern University Medical School's Alumni Achievement Award (1994) and the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for Northwestern Memorial Hospital (1995).

Dr. Rosen's research is focused on experimental therapeutics and hematologic malignancies. He is currently the principal investigator of two NCI funded research grants (1) RO1 (CA85915): Adenosine Analogs: Therapeutics for Hematologic Cancers 2005-2010) and (2) R21 (CA112047): Glucocorticoid Receptors in Myeloma (2005-2007), and is a co-investigator on NCI U54 (CA119341): Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics. He is also the principal investigator of an NCI sponsored T32 Institutional NRSA in support of Clinical Oncology Research Training Program (2004-2009), and has received a CURE supplement to the CSG for summer training of under-represented minority students. Dr. Rosen also is the principal investigator of the ACS Institutional Research Grant that has been awarded to the Cancer Center.

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