Massimo Loda, MD

Massimo Loda, MD

David D. Thompson Professor
Weill Cornell Medical College
Chairman of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Pathologist-in-Chief
New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York

Research Interests

Pathology; post-translational mechanisms; metabolism in prostate cancer with special emphasis on lipid metabolism; metabolic alterations in prostate tumorigenesis; stromal microenvironment in prostate cancer.

Current Affiliations

Endowed tenured professor, pathology and laboratory medicine; and chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; pathologist-in-chief, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York; visiting professor, pathology course sciences, Universita Vita-Salute, Milano University Milano, Italy; faculty, Network Oncology and Precision Medicine Graduate School, University of Rome, Rome, Italy; professor emeritus of pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; visiting professor, pathology, Nuffield Surgical Sciences, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Previous Positions

Newtown Abraham professor, Nuffield Surgical Sciences, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (2022-2023), Oxford, United Kingdom; faculty member, physiology, biophysics, and systems biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (2021), Boston, Massachusetts; interim director, Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine (2020), New York, New York; chair, Department of Oncologic Pathology (2016-2019); member, Center for Cancer and Genome (2007-2019); and director, Molecular in Situ Hybridization and Prostate Human Pathology Cores (1998-2005), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; visiting professor, Division of Cancer, King’s College London School of Medicine (2011-2017), London, United Kingdom; associate member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT (2007-2021), Boston, Massachusetts; division chief, Division of Translational and Molecular Oncologic Pathology (2016-2019); director, Genito-urinary Pathology Service, Department of Pathology (2007-2010); director, Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology (CMOP) (2006-2016); and staff pathologist (1998-2019), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; associate professor (1999-2006), assistant professor (1994-1999), and instructor (1992-1994), pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Education

MD, University of Milan, Milan, Italy (1980); BA, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (2006).

Postdoctoral Training

Fellow, anatomic and molecular pathology, Tufts University (1988-1989), Middlesex County, Massachusetts; resident, anatomic pathology (1986-1988) and general surgery (1985-1986), Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; resident, emergency surgery, Ospedale Policlinico, University of Milan (1980-1985), Milan, Italy.

Selected AACR Service, Honors, and Awards

Chair, Pathology in Cancer Research Working Group (2024-present); member, AACR Precision Combination Therapy Task Force (2021-present); chair, AACR James S. Ewing-Thelma B. Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer in Cancer Research Committee (2021-2022); editor-in-chief (2021-present) and senior editor (2016-2021), AACR Journal, Molecular Cancer Research; recipient, AACR Team Science Award (2020); member, Education and Training Committee (2019-2022); member, Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research Committee (2019-2020); chair, Pathology Task Force (2018-2024); member, AACR Scientific Achievement Awards Ad Hoc Nominating Committee (2019-2020); member, Special Conferences Committee (2016-2022); cochair, Annual Meeting Program Committee (2015-2016); cochair, Annual Meeting Education Committee (2015-2016); member, Scientific Advisory Board, Pezcoller Foundation Symposium (2011-present); senior editor, AACR Journal, Clinical Cancer Research (2007-2010).

Selected Non-AACR Service, Honors, and Awards

Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, American-Italian Cancer Foundation (2022); recipient, Special Challenge Award, Prostate Cancer Foundation (2021, 2022); member, External Advisory Board, University of Wisconsin Prostate SPORE (2020-present); recipient, Meritorious Award, Society for Basic Urologic Research (2020); recipient, William O Russell Award, MD Anderson Cancer Research Center (2020); recipient, The A. David Mazzone Mentoring Career Development Award, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2018-2019); member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Pathology (2012-2014); member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Pathology (2010-2012); member, Scientific Advisory Board, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory new Jersey Prostate Cancer SPORE (2007); member, Scientific Advisory Board, Medical School The DNA Repair (DNAR) (2007-2009); member, External Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer (2005-present); recipient, Donald S. Coffey-CaP CURE, Physician-Scientist Award, Association for the Clinical/Research Cure of Cancer of the Prostate (2003).

Candidates for the AACR Nominating Committee