David Spriggs, MD

Dr. Spriggs is currently a medical oncologist and Associate Director of Clinical & Translational Science. In this senior role, Dr. Spriggs will guide research integration within MSKCC and advise the institution’s leadership on strategic issues that affect interdisciplinary research. He is also the leader of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Division of Solid Tumors. He manages gynecologic malignancies (predominantly ovarian cancers) and leads the program in early drug development.

Additionally, he runs clinical trials that are testing new, targeted drugs, and oversees a small research laboratory looking for answers to such questions as why certain tumors resist drug treatment and how genes can affect the development of tumors.

He attended the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and had residencies at Presbyterian Hospital and The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. He completed his fellowships at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.