Werewolf Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Michael B. Atkins, M.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Atkins joins the Werewolf Board of Directors with more than 30 years of experience in translational and clinical research, specializing in melanoma, kidney cancer, and cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Atkins is Deputy Director of the Georgetown-Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and William M. Scholl Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Prior to Georgetown, Dr. Atkins was a Professor at Harvard Medical School. There, he served as leader of the Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Co-PI of the Harvard Skin Cancer SPORE, leader of the Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center Kidney Cancer Program, and Director of the Kidney Cancer SPORE. Dr. Atkins serves on the Board of the Directors and co-chairs the Scientific Advisory Council of the Melanoma Research Foundation, is Chair of the Melanoma Research Alliance Medical Advisory Panel and is a past member of the Nominating Committee for the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Council.

He is also past president of the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer. He received the OncLive Giant in Cancer Care Award for Melanoma in 2021 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Immunotherapy from SITC in 2022 and in 2023, was inducted as a Fellow in the Academy of ImmunoOncology. He has published over 500 scientific and review articles, co-edited five books, and given over 800 lectures worldwide.