Josh Sommer

Co-Founder/Executive Director The Chordoma Foundation

Josh is Executive Director of the Chordoma Foundation, which he co-founded to speed the pace of chordoma research after he was diagnosed with a skull-base chordoma in 2006. Following his diagnosis, Josh spent two years studying chordoma in the lab of Dr. Michael Kelley at Duke University. In addition to his role at the RCRF, he also currently holds positions on the National Cancer Institute Director’s Consumer Liaison Group, External Advisory Board to the Total Cancer Care program at the Moffitt Cancer Center, and the board of Advisors of the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation. For his efforts to advance chordoma research, Josh was honored by ABC News as a Person of the Year in 2008.