Fadlo R. Khuri
​Fadlo R. Khuri, the president of the American University of Beirut (AUB), has guided the university through difficulties that have included economic challenges and international conflicts, in addition to the pandemic. Despite these challenges, Khuri has led AUB in forging strong partnerships, expanding academic tenure, increasing financial assistance, diversifying the student body, and raising the institution's global profile.
Dr. Khuri came to AUB from the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia where he was appointed to the Frances Kelly Blomeyer Chair (2002) and the Roberto C. Goizueta Chair in translational research (2007). Khuri, Professor of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory also served as Deputy Director for the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. In his 13 years at Emory, he was instrumental in the development of several major cancer-related programs in the United States and was the principal investigator on a number of National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society grants. He has authored over 750 publications, including 385 peer-reviewed journal articles, 55 reviews, 45 editorials and perspectives in leading journals, 250 meeting abstracts, and over 15 letters, notes, chapters, and short surveys. He served for 10 years (2011-21) as editor-in-chief of Cancer, the oldest and one of the most prestigious journals in the field. Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Khuri was a faculty member at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, from 1995 until 2002.
Khuri has served as a permanent member of multiple peer review committees for the American Cancer Society, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and was chair of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Oncology Study Section. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his scholarly achievements including the 2006 Nagi Sahyoun Award of the Middle East Medical Assembly; the 2013 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Memorial Award by the American Association for Cancer Research; TAKREEM's Scientific and Technological Achievement Award in 2015; and the 2018 Ben Qurrah Award, the World Health Organization's No Tobacco Award, and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's Joseph W. Cullen Award, also in 2018. Khuri became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014, a full member of the Lebanese Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences in 2015, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2017. He is the current vice president of the Lebanese Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Sciences.