Name William Figg, | ||
William Douglas Figg, Sr. (born August 22, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American scientist (pharmacologist) at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Biography
Figg received a BS (honorary) from Georgetown College (Kentucky) (attended 1981 to 1983), a BS in Pharmacy from Samford University (1987) and a doctoral degree (Pharm.D.) from Auburn University (1989). He completed an internship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital and a fellowship in Drug Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990–1992). He also received an MBA degree from a combined program at Columbia University, School of Business and London Business School.
Figg joined the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in 1992. The following year he became head of the Molecular Pharmacology Section and the Clinical Pharmacology Program. His research is focused on using pharmacological principles to optimize the treatment of cancer, on identifying genes involved in the development of prostate cancer and developing new treatments including angiogenesis inhibitors for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer. According to Scopus, he is the most well-published scientist in the combined fields of angiogenesis and prostate cancer. Figg has over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers and published four books – including the seminal textbook on Angiogenesis with legendary cancer researcher Judah Folkman.
He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Leon Goldberg Award from American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Allen J. Brands Award from United States Public Health Service, the Russell R. Miller Award from American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the Andrew Craigie Award from Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Philip C. and Ethel F. Ashby Lecture from the University of Oklahoma, and the Sustained Contribution to the Scientific Literature award from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation.
Figg is a retired Captain in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Figg is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan (School of Pharmacy), Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons), Samford University (School of Pharmacy), Virginia Commonwealth University (School of Pharmacy) and the University of Maryland (School of Pharmacy).
Private life
Figg grew up in Beaver Dam, Kentucky and graduated from Ohio County High School, Hartford, Kentucky. He is married to Jennifer M. Figg (pharmacist at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia) and has one child (William D. Figg, II a graduate of Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, Virginia and a student at Trinity College Dublin).