Dr. Larry Einhorn and Indiana University Cancer Research

Despite major advances in diagnosis and treatment, cancer still remains a formidable foe.

Several cancer therapies were originally discovered at Indiana University. IU's faculty is not only nationally recognized, but has an international reputation that is competitive with any cancer institute in the world. Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, is the senior cancer research investigator at Indiana University and he has been here since 1973. His research team includes pathologists, laboratory scientists, geneticists, statisticians, data managers, oncology nurses and clinical oncologists.

Dr. Einhorn has been widely recognized for his success in medical oncology and in the development of a curative treatment for testis cancer, the most common cancer in young men.

Dr. Einhorn's most recognized accomplishment is his development in 1974 of a chemotherapy regimen for disseminated testis cancer that revolutionized the results of therapy and is responsible for a dramatic improvement in the cure rate of what previously had been a devastating and rapidly fatal disease.

Testis cancer is not Dr. Einhorn's only area of expertise. He is also an internationally recognized authority on other types of urologic cancer, lung cancer and certain other tumors, and his publications number in the hundreds. Few medical oncologists have had as profound an impact on cancer treatment.

His numerous awards note Dr. Einhorn's accomplishments. He has received the most prestigious awards of both the American Association of Cancer Research (Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award) and of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Karnofsky Award), among others.

Dr. Einhorn has recently been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Election to the NAS is the highest national honor accorded to a scientist or engineer. The academy acts as an official adviser to the federal government in science and technology matters. The APS was founded by Benjamin Franklin and is the oldest learned society in the U. S. Membership is bestowed on eminent scholars to promote research in the sciences and humanities.