J. Milburn Jessup, MD

J. Milburn Jessup, MD was an active academic surgical oncologist who practiced for 25 years at multiple institutions that included University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Georgetown University Medical Center.

He became chief of the diagnostics evaluation branch in the Cancer Diagnosis Program of the National Cancer Institute in 2006 to facilitate the transition of discovery-based markers into in vitro diagnostics that are used in clinical trials. He also managed several agreements for cancer-directed informatics technology development as well as technology development programs in South Africa and the Philippines.

In January 2016 Dr. Jessup joined Inova Schar Cancer Institute as scientific director of the Inova Precision Cancer Care Program to develop the infrastructure for Inova Molecular Tumor Board. He feels strongly that is is important that genomic and proteomic information be used to improve the survival and quality of life of each patient with cancer.