Dan Dixon, Ph.D., is the associate director of community outreach and engagement for the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the UAMS College of Medicine. At the Cancer Institute, he is responsible for creating a statewide community network to advance cancer prevention efforts among rural communities and provide statewide cancer education and patient navigation services. Dixon’s research interests include cancer prevention, early detection and colon cancer chemoprevention. His research includes discoveries into the role of post-transcriptional gene regulation in cancer. He has served as principal investigator for multiple NCI-funded studies with research published in Cell, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Gastroenterology. He was previously a professor of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas and the co-leader of the Cancer Prevention & Survivorship Program and Drug Discovery, Delivery and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the University of Kansas Comprehensive Cancer Center.