Dr Lewis Cantley, Ph.D., is the director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He obtained a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from Cornell University in Ithaca in 1975 and was a professor at Tufts University and Harvard University in Boston before moving to New York City. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. He has received a number of awards for his discovery of PI3K and its role in insulin function and in cancer, including the 2000 Heinrich Wieland Preis for Lipid Research, Munich; 2005 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research; 2009 Rolf Luft Award for Diabetes & Endocrinology Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; 2013 Breakthrough in Life Sciences Award; 2015 Canada Gairdner International Award, Toronto; 2015 Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine; 2016 Wolf Prize in Medicine, Tel Aviv; and most recently the 2018 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.