John E. Niederhuber

John Edward Niederhuber is an American oncologist and surgeon who served as the 13th director of the National Cancer Institute from 2006 until July 2010, succeeding Andrew von Eschenbach. His career of about four decades has been devoted to the treatment and study of cancer, as a professor, cancer center director, chair of the National Cancer Advisory Board, external adviser to the institute, grant reviewer and laboratory investigator supported by the NCI and the National Institutes of Health. The article describes him as Executive Vice President and chief executive of the Inova Translational Medicine Institute and Inova Health System and as co-director of the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network.