Director, UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center

Thomas P. Loughran, Jr., MD

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 434.243.9926

Thomas P. Loughran, Jr., MD, is the director of the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center, the F. Palmer Weber-Smithfield Foods Professor of Oncology Research, and a professor of medicine. He is also director of UVA Health’s Large Granular Lymphocyte (LGL) Leukemia Program. Under his leadership, the cancer center achieved Comprehensive status from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the highest designation for cancer centers in the United States.

A physician-scientist, Dr. Loughran earned his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia. He completed his fellowship in medical oncology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he discovered LGL leukemia and remained on the faculty there for seven years.

Dr. Loughran previously served as chief of hematology at the Syracuse Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Syracuse, NY; associate director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at SUNY Health Science Center; and leader of hematologic malignancies at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida. From July 2003 to August 2013, he was founding director of the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and professor of medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine.

He has enjoyed continuous federal grant support for 40 years. He is currently the principal investigator on multiple grants from the NCI and National Institutes of Health. He has published numerous articles in high impact, peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Blood.