Elizabeth Plimack – SAB Chairperson

Elizabeth R. Plimack is a Professor of Medical Oncology and the Deputy of Director Fox Chase Cancer.  She is an expert on the treatment of genitourinary malignancies with a focus on bladder and kidney cancers.  Her research effort is directed towards the discovery of novel therapeutic approaches and predictive biomarkers for patients with bladder and kidney cancers.

Dr. Plimack has extensive clinical trial experience with targeted therapy, immunotherapy and novel combination therapies. She serves on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines panels for Bladder Cancer, chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Management and was an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Board of Directors (2020-2024).  She has expertise in novel early phase I/II trial designs, phase III trial designs, multidisciplinary/ multimodality clinical trials, correlative tissue based analysis and biomarker development and validation.

Dr. Plimack received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and completed her M.D. degree and residency in Internal Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She went on to a Medical Oncology Fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and received a Master’s in Patient Based Biologic Research from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science.