Associate Professor and Chair
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Zachary Morris, MD/PhD is the vice-chair and endowed professor of Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. As a radiation oncologist, he specializes in the treatment of patients with melanoma and sarcomas with a secondary focus on prostate and head and neck cancers. His translational research laboratory examines the mechanisms and pre-clinical testing of treatment approaches that combine radiation and immunotherapies to drive anti-tumor immune responses. He was a 2017 recipient of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award and is co-PI on a NIH Cancer Moonshot Initiative U01 grant that was funded as part of the Immune-Oncology Translational Network. More recently, Dr. Morris co-led a UW team in the successful application for a NIH P01 program project grant that focuses on the interaction between targeted radionuclide therapies and immunotherapeutics.