Douglas R. Lowy is the Acting Director of the U.S.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Chief of the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology within the Center for Cancer Research at NCI. Lowy was named Acting Director on April 1, 2015. He was Deputy Director of the NCI from 2010 to 2015. He was co-recipient (along with Dr. John T. Schiller) of the
National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2014.