Accutar Biotech Inc., a technology company pioneering AI guided drug discovery to bring broader benefits for patients, announced Dr. Pasi A. Jänne joins scientific advisory board to support development of the company’s pipeline drugs in lung cancer.

“It is our honor to have world esteemed leaders like Dr. Pasi A. Jänne to advise us to develop precision medicines for unmet medical needs in the field,” said Jie Fan, PhD, founder and CEO of Accutar, “Dr. Jänne’s insights will strengthen our company’s Lung Cancer franchise.”

Dr. Pasi A. Jänne, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Jänne is the Director of the Lower Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Director of the Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After earning his MD and PhD from the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Jänne completed his internship and residency in Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.  He subsequently completed fellowship training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital combined program in medical oncology in 2001. In 2002 he earned a Master’s Degree in clinical investigation from Harvard University.

Dr. Jänne’s research combines laboratory-based studies, with translational research and clinical trials of novel therapeutic agents in patients with lung cancer. His main research interests center around understanding and translating the therapeutic importance of oncogenic alterations in lung cancer.  He has made seminal therapeutic discoveries, including being on one of the co-discoverers of EGFR mutations, and findings from his work has led to the development of several clinical trials. Dr. Jänne has received several awards for his work including from the American Association for Cancer Research, European Society for Medical Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.