David Solit, M.D.

Solit is a medical oncologist, laboratory scientist and the Geoffrey Beene Chair for Cancer Research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. As a member of the Genitourinary Oncology Service, he specializes in the treatment of prostate and bladder cancers. He is involved in clinical trials, particularly trials of targeted drugs known as kinase inhibitors. As the director of the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Solit leads a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, geneticists, bioinformaticians and laboratory scientists whose mission is to integrate molecular and clinical information to develop therapies that are individualized to each patient’s cancer.