The President today announced his intention to appoint Enrico Mihich to be a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board for a term expiring March 9, 1990. He would succeed Irving J. Selikoff.
Dr. Mihich is director of the Grace Cancer Drug Center at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, NY. He is also director of the Department of Experimental Therapeutics and institute coordinator for therapeutics. He has been with the institute since 1957 and his duties also include serving as head of the drug development and formulation unit. He is on the staff of the State University of New York as adjunct professor of biochemical pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, and research professor of pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine.
He graduated from Italian Liceo Scientirico (B.S., 1944) and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Milan, Italy (M.D., 1951). He is married, has one child, and resides in Buffalo, NY. He was born January 4, 1928, in Fiume, Yugoslavia.
Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Enrico Mihich as a Member of the National Cancer Advisory Board Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/261454