David Scheinberg is the chairman of the molecular pharmacology and chemistry program at the Sloan-Kettering Institute. Dr. Scheinberg also founded and chairs the Experimental Therapeutics Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, co-chairs the Pharmacology Graduate Program at the Weill-Cornell University Medical College and is a professor in the Gerstner-Sloan Kettering Graduate School at MSKCC, as well as at Weill Cornell Medical College. From 1992 until 2003, he was Chief of Leukemia Service at Memorial Hospital. In 2013, Dr. Scheinberg was Interim Director of Sloan-Kettering Institute.
A physician-scientist, Dr. Scheinberg specializes in the care of patients with leukemia. He investigates new therapeutic approaches to cancer, both in the hospital and in the laboratory. The focus of his research is the discovery and development of novel, specific immunotherapeutic agents. He has developed eight therapeutic agents, which include the first humanized antibodies to treat acute leukemia, the first targeted alpha-particle therapies and alpha generators, and the first tumor-specific fusion oncogene product vaccines; they have all reached human clinical trials. Dr. Scheinberg has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, chapters and books.
In the private sector, Dr. Scheinberg was previously a board director of several publicly-traded biotechnology companies, including ContraFect Corporation and Progenics Pharmaceuticals, and was the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Active Biotherapeutics, Inc., which was acquired by Progenics Pharmaceuticals. He is currently a member of the scientific advisory boards of OncoPep and Ensysce Biosciences. He founded and is a director of the Therapeutics Discovery Institute, a non-profit drug discovery corporation serving Rockefeller University, Weil Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Scheinberg advises charitable foundations, cancer centers, and biotech companies and sits on several journal editorial boards.
Dr. Scheinberg holds an A.B., cum laude, distinction in all subjects, from the College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, 1977. He holds an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University, 1983, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1983.