Michael J. Morris, MD, PhD

Dr. Morris is a prostate cancer specialist, clinical investigator, and the Section Head of Prostate Cancer of the Genitourinary Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He earned his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and performed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He then completed his medical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where is also was Chief Fellow. Over the past several decades, Dr. Morris has had a particular research focus on targeted therapy for prostate cancer, especially those that bridge the fields of Medical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine. In the field of therapeutics, he has focused on tumor and bone-directed radiopharmaceuticals for prostate cancer, both as single agents and as combinatorial regimens. He was a member of the leadership team that developed Lu-177 PSMA-617, which is now FDA approved for men with advanced prostate cancer. He now leads research programs to develop new prostate-specific targets bearing new payloads using novel targeting agents. He has a research interest in developing novel imaging technologies for metastatic prostate cancer and in credentialing imaging biomarkers. He has been a co-developer of the Prostate Cancer Working Group 2 and 3 Consensus Criteria, and prostate-specific imaging technologies such as PSMA-directed PET imaging. In addition, he is the Medical Director of the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium. He has long had an interest in novel methods of implementing prostate cancer clinical trials, and utilizing digital methods to reduce barriers to expertise, clinical care, and investigational studies.