As Associate Director for Education and Training since 1998, Edmund C. Lattime, PhD coordinates research education and training activities at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ). Lattime received his PhD from Rutgers University. During his postdoctoral fellowship and ten-year tenure as faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, his translational research focused on targeting the tumor-immune interaction in solid tumors. Lattime was recruited from Thomas Jefferson University in 1998 and appointed Associate Director for Education and Training at CINJ and Professor of Surgery (tenured) at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He was Deputy Director of CINJ from 2008-2014. During his tenure at CINJ, he has overseen the significant expansion of the Education and Training portfolio with the growth of CINJ, merger with RU, and establishment of the Consortium with PU. He directs a continuously R01-funded translational research laboratory program in Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy. Extramurally, he has chaired numerous NCI and NCATS reviews and held a 5-year membership on NCI Subcommittee F, responsible for review of institutional and individual training grants. He chairs the ECOG-ACRIN Laboratory Science Advisory Committee and is a member of the Roswell Park EAB.