Dr William Douglas Figg

Dr. William Douglas Figg received a BS in Pharmacy from Samford University and a doctoral degree in pharmacy from Auburn University. He completed a clinical internship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital and a fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also earned an MBA from a joint program at Columbia University and the London Business School and holds honorary degrees from Georgetown College and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Figg joined the National Cancer Institute at the NIH in 1992, where he leads the Genitourinary Malignancy Branch and directs the Clinical Pharmacology Program. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Cancer Research. Dr. Figg is an adjunct Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and an adjunct Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University.

With more than 900 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Figg has received numerous honors from professional societies.