Imunon, Inc. announced the appointment of Patrick Ott, M.D., Ph.D. to the scientific advisory board. Dr. Ott is the Clinical Director of the Melanoma Disease Center and the Director, Clinical Sciences, of the Center for Immuno-Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He joins current scientific advisory board members Dan H. Barouch, M.D., Ph.D., Luke D. Handke, Ph.D., Sachet A. Shukla, Ph.D. and John W. Shiver, Ph.D. Dr. Ott serves as an attending physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.

He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and completed his post-doctoral training in immunology and his residency in Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. After a fellowship in hematology-oncology and four years on the faculty at New York University, he joined Dana-Farber in 2012.