Andrea Califano, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, co-Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Director of the National Center for the Multiscale Analysis of Genetic and Cellular Networks has been appointed for a 5 year term to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Board of Scientific Advisors. The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors provide scientific advice on a wide variety of matters concerning scientific program policy, progress and future direction of the NCI’s extramural research programs, and concept review of extramural program initiatives.