Raymond DuBois, M.D., Ph.D.

Director of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center

Executive Chair of the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

Dr. DuBois is the Director of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center & Executive Chair of the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research.  Prior to these positions, Dr. DuBois served as Executive Director of the Biodesign Institute in Arizona (ASU) and Provost and Executive Vice President at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr. DuBois is an internationally renowned expert known for his work elucidating the role of inflammation and inflammatory mediators in the progression of colon cancer. He is a past president of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) , the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, and the International Society for Gastrointestinal Cancer. He currently serves as President and Chair of the AACR Foundation Board. In 2018, he was named to the steering committee for the AACR Academy, and selected as a Vice Chair for the Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. DuBois earned a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Texas A&M and a doctoral degree from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He obtained a medical degree from The UT School of Medicine in San Antonio, followed by completion of an Osler Medicine internship/residency, and a gastroenterology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.