FLX Bio Inc. announced the appointment of two leading oncology experts to its scientific advisory board (SAB). Drew Pardoll, M.D., Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and Philip Greenberg, M.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, join Jeff Bluestone, Ph.D., David Goeddel, Ph.D., Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D., Alexander Rudensky, Ph.D. and Robert Zamboni, Ph.D., bringing the total SAB to seven key opinion leaders in immunotherapy. Dr. Pardoll serves as the Abeloff Professor of Oncology, Medicine, Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, director of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and co-director of the Cancer Immunology Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. He has made a number of basic advances in cellular immunology, including the discovery of gamma - delta T cells, NKT cells and interferon-producing killer dendritic cells. Dr. Greenberg serves as the head of the Program in Immunology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as well as professor in both the Oncology and Immunology divisions of the University of Washington, Department of Medicine. Dr. Greenberg's research focuses on both basic immunology and cancer immunobiology to treat human malignancies and chronic infections, with a particular expertise in using T cells to selectively target disease. He has been elected to several honorary societies including the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American College of Physicians, and has received two National Institutes of Health Method to Extend Research in Time awards as well as the International Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Team Science Award for Career Achievements and Cancer Research Institute's William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology.