Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization Replicate Bioscience
Location Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Regions Research Triangle, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Dr. Lyerly is the George Barth Geller Professor of Cancer Research, Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Pathology, and Assistant Professor of Immunology at Duke University. He is the former director of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is an internationally recognized expert in cancer therapy and cancer immunotherapy and has
published over 200 scientific articles and has edited 10 textbooks on surgery, cancer immunotherapy, and novel cancer therapies.
He serves on the editorial board of 12 scientific journals. Dr. Lyerly has been the principal investigator of the NCI Cancer Center Core Grant, the Duke Specialized Program in Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in breast cancer, and a program project grant directed toward developing antigen specific immunity in patients with cancer. Dr. Lyerly is a member of the American College of Surgeons, of which he is a fellow. He has been named by his peers as one of North Carolina’s most outstanding clinical physicians.
Dr. Lyerly is a highly sought advisor and currently serves on the external advisory boards of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the University of Michigan Cancer Center, the University of Chicago Cancer Center, the University of Alabama Cancer Center, the Boston University Cancer Center, and the Purdue Cancer Center. He also serves as an advisor to the University of Washington, and Case Western Reserve Clinical and Translational Science Institutes.
He is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation. He has previously served as chairperson of the executive committee of the integration panel of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs in Breast Cancer. He also served on American Society of Clinical Oncology¹s (ASCO) Grants Selection Committee, of which he served as chair in 2006.
Dr Lyerly was invited by former North Carolina Governor Michael Easley to serve on the Advisory Commission of the NC State Museum Of Natural Sciences, and was reappointed by Governor Beverly Perdue. In 2008, Dr. Lyerly was appointed to the National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB) by President George Bush and was named chair on the Cancer Centers sub-committee of the NCAB.
