Professor Thomas Gajewski is Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine at the University of Chicago.  He oversees the melanoma oncology clinic and is the leader of the Immunology and Cancer Program at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prof. Gajewski is committed to investigating and developing new treatments for patients with melanoma, with a special interest in the development of immunotherapies, and is an author/co-author of over 270 scientific publications in the field. He serves as an editor for Cancer Discovery, Journal for Experimental Medicine, and the Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, is on the Program Committees for the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and is past President of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.