2007 Sessions
Dr. Michael J. Manyak, MD, is Vice President for Medical Affairs, Cytogen Corporation
Dr. Michael J. Manyak is Vice President for Medical Affairs for Cytogen Corporation. He is a Professor of Urology, Engineering, Microbiology, and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC) and is on staff at the Center for Prostate Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Manyak completed his urological residency at GWUMC, became an American Foundation For Urological Disease (AFUD) Scholar at the National Cancer Institute and completed a fellowship in biotechnology in 1988, and joined the urological staff at GWUMC where he remained for 16 years, the last nine as Interim Chairman of the Department of Urology. His research interests include the expression and regulation of a protein which inhibits metastasis, monoclonal antibody use for detection of prostate cancer metastasis, surgical simulation with virtual reality, and other applications of medical biotechnology.
The medical corporate experience of Dr. Manyak includes service on the scientific advisory board or as a consultant to more than 25 biomedical technology and pharmaceutical companies. In this capacity he has been involved in business development, strategic planning for FDA approval of products, intellectual property development, protocol construction, and clinical trials. He is a founder of Metastatin Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company developing anti-metastatic therapies. Dr. Manyak has been granted 11 patents with several pending.
Dr. Manyak served on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a member of the Imaging Subcommittee. In addition, he received a presidential appointment to the National Kidney and Urological Disease Advisory Board. He has twice served as a voting member of the FDA Regulatory Panel for Genitourinary and Gastrointestinal Devices. Dr. Manyak served as Chairman of the AUA Technology Assessment Council and on 5 other national AUA Committees related to technology for 5 years. He has published nearly 200 professional abstracts, book chapters, and refereed journal articles. Dr. Manyak was profiled by the Washingtonian Magazine in December 2001 as one of 50 people selected as The Best and Brightest of Washington and by Family Urology Magazine in April 2003. He is listed in four directories of Who's Who in America.
Dr. Manyak was the Managing Medical Editor of the nationally-acclaimed Time-Life Medical Publications prostate cancer educational video and the Medical Editor for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) video Check It Out which received both the Creative Excellence Award at the US International Film and Video Festival and a National Media Owl Award in 1997. Dr. Manyak was the medical editor for the Virtual Prostate website that received the Gold World Wide Web Health Award in 2004. He is a urologic consultant to Mens Health Magazine and a frequent media contact on behalf of the AUA. He has numerous appearances on national networks for CBS, NBC, Fox News, PBS, and CNN and has been the guest of John McLaughlin on One On One. Dr. Manyak has been selected as one of America's Top Physicians.
The Boy Scouts of America recently named a camp for Dr. Manyak, an Eagle Scout, for the 2005 National Scout Jamboree in Fredericksburg, VA. In addition, Dr. Manyak has been inducted into the Greater Flint Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (1996) and the State of Michigan High School Athletic Association Legends of the Game (2004).
Dr. Manyak maintains an avid interest in field exploration and expedition medicine and is editing a textbook on expedition medicine. Dr. Manyak is a consultant to several journalists and members of the National Geographic Society, NPR Radio Expeditions, and USA Today for travel medical issues and is the urologic consultant to the Peace Corps. Recently, Dr. Manyak was appointed by NASA to the Aerospace Medicine and Occupational Health Advisory Committee.
Dr. Manyak was selected as a Fellow National of The Explorers Club in 1992, chaired the Expeditions Committee for 10 years, and was appointed to the Science Advisory Board in 1997 which he now chairs. He served on The Explorers Club Board of Directors from 1996-2006. His column on Expedition Medicine has appeared in the Explorers Journal. Dr. Manyak received the prestigious Sweeney Medal in 2004 from The Explorers Club. Dr. Manyak was the Field Medical Advisor to the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) which investigates unknown or undescribed animals throughout the world. Dr. Manyak has led a scientific expedition to the Ndoki rain forest in the Congo Basin in a collaborative effort with the World Wildlife Fund, has dived the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in search of artifacts, was the ship physician on the icebreaker MV Polar Star for an Antarctic expedition with Students On Ice, and was the medical director for the RMS Titanic salvage expedition and dove to the Titanic wrecksite in the Russian MIR submersible. Most recently, Dr. Manyak was the medical officer on an expedition to the deepest canyon in the world in Peru.
