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John Crowley, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, brings three decades of experience in Biostatistics to his role as President and CEO of Cancer Research And Biostatistics (CRAB). Under Dr. Crowley's leadership, CRAB serves as the Statistical Center for the Southwest Oncology Group, a federally sponsored clinical research consortium comprised of thousands of cancer centers and investigators across the nation. CRAB also serves as the Statistical Center for the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the world's most successful research and treatment facility for myeloma. To serve these groups, Dr. Crowley oversees the study design, protocol development, data management, quality control, data analysis, and statistical research of more than 100 active multi-site clinical cancer trials. Dr. Crowley manages a staff of 75 high-level statisticians, data coordinators and other professionals dedicated to conquering cancer through large-scale clinical trials.

Dr. Crowley's own research interests focus on the design and analysis of cancer clinical and translation trials. He is one of the first in the country to develop analytical methods and statistical results for micro array-based genomic data on the progression of pre-myeloma to myeloma. He developed the first successful web-based, paperless system to manage the flow of data that arrives at CRAB from around the nation as part of multi-site clinical trials. He is involved in assessing the importance of laboratory findings in predicting survival and forming prognostic groups. His longstanding interest in developing exploratory tools for survival data has produced widely used statistical applications in these areas. Dr. Crowley also educates cancer clinicians in the principles and pitfalls of cancer clinical trials.

Since Dr. Crowley's research career began in 1974, he has had numerous significant accomplishments. He served as Head of the Biostatistics Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from 1983 until 1993, during which time he was honored with a Mortimer Spiegelman Award, given every year by the American Public Health Association to an outstanding young biostatistician. Dr. Crowley's credentials also include prestigious fellowships from the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. To date he has authored over 250 professional papers and books.

Dr. Crowley received his masters and doctorate degrees (in 1970 and 1973, respectively) in Biomathematics from the University of Washington. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and then moved onto an Assistant Professorship in 1974 followed by an Associate Professorship in 1979 at the University of Wisconsin, Departments of Human Oncology and Statistics. In 1982, Dr. Crowley accepted an appointment as Associate Member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), along with an Associate Professorship in Biostatistics at the University of Washington. He was subsequently promoted to Full Professor at the University and Full Member at FHCRC in 1984. His academic base is now at CRAB, and he holds a joint appointment at the Full Member level at FHCRC.