Director
Thomas P. Loughran Jr., MD
Thomas P. Loughran Jr., MD, became director of the University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center, F. Palmer Weber-Smithfield Foods Professor of Oncology Research and Professor of Medicine on Aug. 15, 2013. He is also Director of UVA’s Large Granular Lymphocyte (LGL) Leukemia Program, Co-Director of the Paul Mellon Urologic Cancer Institute and Co-Lead of the Translational Orphan Blood Cancer Initiative (TOBCRI).
A physician-scientist, Dr. Loughran earned his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia. He completed his fellowship in medical oncology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he discovered LGL leukemia and remained on the faculty there for seven years.
Dr. Loughran previously served as chief of hematology at the Syracuse Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, as associate director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at SUNY Health Science Center program, and as leader of hematologic malignancies at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida. From July 2003 to August 2013, he was founding director of the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and Professor of Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine.
He has enjoyed continuous federal grant support for more than 35 years and currently is the principal investigator on one R01 and one P01 grant, and the PI on the CCSG P30 grant. He has published numerous articles in high impact peer-reviewed journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Blood.