Corey Casper, MD, MPH

A dynamic executive leader and physician-scientist who has designed and led numerous impactful research collaborations over his three-decade career, Dr. Casper was the founding chief executive officer of the Access to Advanced Health Institute in Seattle, a novel non-profit research institute that collaborates with academic and government partners and pharmaceutical companies to invent, develop, manufacture and license vaccines and immunotherapeutics.

He also served as the founding director of the Global Oncology program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, where he was responsible for building a preeminent international research, training and clinical care center and growing a new research and academic section. He also previously held positions as a professor of medicine, epidemiology and global health at the University of Washington, where he was a co-director of the Center for AIDS Research, and an affiliate professor and associate cancer center director at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

An accomplished scientist who has led the development of more than two dozen products and made important gains in our understanding of the relationship between infection, immunity and cancer, Dr. Casper has served as the principal investigator on more than $100 million in grants and contracts and authored more than 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts.

He also is an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and a clinical scholar at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.