William E. Evans (pharmacist)

From 1986 to 2002, he chaired the St. Jude Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and from 2002 to 2004 served as the hospital’s scientific director and executive vice president.

He also currently holds the St. Jude Professorship and Endowed chair at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and Pharmacy.

[2] He received an honorary doctor of science degree (honoris causa) from Ohio State University in 2008.

[2] Evans has received three consecutive NCI MERIT Awards from the National Institutes of Health for his research of antileukemic agents in children.

[15] During his tenure as CEO, St. Jude has been consistently ranked among the top ten Best Places to Work in Academia by The Scientist magazine including their No.