Bob Darnell is the Rockefeller University Heilbrunn Professor in Cancer Biology, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is Senior Physician and Associate Program Director at the Rockefeller University Hospital. He holds affiliate positions as Attending Neurologist and Member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he is active as an Attending Physician, and as Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Cornell University Weill Medical College. Among numerous awards, he has received the Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research. He has served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of numerous foundations, which currently include the EMBL Gene Expression Program and NIH NINDS Board of Scientific Counselors.