Sanford Markowitz, MD, Ph.D. holds the Markowitz-Ingalls Professorship of Cancer Genetics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, with appointments in the Department of Medicine and in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and co-appointments in the Departments of Genetics and Genome Sciences and in Molecular Biology and Microbiology. He is internationally recognized for his work identifying key genetic causes of colon cancer and developing molecular tests for early detection. In clinical practice he is an attending physician at the UH Seidman Cancer Center.