Henry P. Ciolino, PhD

Dr. Henry P. Ciolino earned a Ph.D. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from the Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans, LA., and completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Rodney L. Levine in the Laboratory of Biochemistry of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Moving to the National Cancer Institute, he became a Staff Scientist in the Laboratory of Metabolism before joining the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Nutritional Sciences. There, he ran an NCI-funded laboratory that studied the effect of dietary agents on the metabolic pathway mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. He returned to the NCI in 2010 in the Office of Cancer Centers and became Director of the OCC in 2015.