Medicine man by day, rockstar by night

Dr. Patrick Hwu runs the Moffitt Cancer Center as he continues to practice medicine and study immunotherapy treatments. Oh, and he plays a mean keyboard in a rock and roll band, too.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:00 a.m. January 12, 2023
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Dr. Patrick Hwu plays with his band the ReMissions at show in Tampa in November. (Photo by Mark Wemple)

Executive Diversions

Executive: Dr. Patrick Hwu, president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. Hwu, 59, is a practicing doctor at Moffitt who regularly treats patients and continues to research. According to Moffitt, he has led research and clinical efforts to better understand how tumors and the immune system work together.

His focus is on vaccines, adoptive T-cell therapies and immune resistance. In that role, the renowned cancer center says he has “helped launch the field of gene-modified T cells, publishing research on the first chimeric antigen receptor directed against cancer.”

Hwu spent 17 years at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, one of the leading cancer centers in the world, before being hired by Moffitt in 2020.