Summit Therapeutics Inc. announced that Laura Chow, MD, has joined Summit Therapeutics as Senior Vice President of Clinical Development. Dr. Chow remains in active clinical practice as a medical oncologist specialized in lung and head and neck cancers. She joins Summit from Fate Therapeutics, where she was the Vice President of Clinical Development in Solid Tumors.

Dr. Chow brings nearly two decades of experience as a practicing medical oncologist and clinical researcher. She was previously a tenured professor while serving as the Associate Chair of Oncology Education as well as the Director of the Head & Neck and Lung Cancer Program at Dell Medical School and University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Associate Cancer Center Director for Clinical Research at the Livestrong Cancer Institutes. Prior to joining the University of Texas, Dr. Chow was a professor and associate director of Phase I clinical trials at the University of Washington School of Medicine as well as an associate member of Fred Hutch, the University of Washington?s prestigious cancer research program.

During her time at the University of Washington, Dr. Chow was a clinical researcher in lung cancer, thyroid cancers, head and neck cancers, and novel immunotherapies and anti-angiogenic agents. Dr. Chow has participated in advisory boards for multiple novel immunotherapies, including the early PD-1 therapies that now represent some of the most significant cancer therapies in present time. Dr. Chow earned her medical degree from the University of British Columbia and performed her residency at the University of Alberta.

She performed her medical oncology fellowship at the University of Calgary, with a subspecialty fellowship in new drug development and lung cancer at the University of Colorado, and began her career at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada focused on development therapeutics in solid tumors.