Dr. Sotomayor is the Vice president an Executive Director of Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute and Professor at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida in Tampa. Previously, he was the Director of the George Washington University Cancer Center and before he served as the Susan and John Sykes Endowed Chair in Hematologic Malignancies at Moffitt Cancer Center.
His translational/clinical research for the past twenty years has focused on the field of cancer immunology and immunotherapy with special emphasis in B-cell malignancies. He has published more than 130 manuscripts, including seminal publications in top tier journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology, Immunity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Investigations, Blood, Cancer Research and Journal of Immunology. He has received multiple grants from the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF), the National Cancer Institute and biotech/pharmaceutical companies.
Dr. Sotomayor is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Lymphoma Research Foundation, past- Chair and member of the Executive Committee of the Mantle Cell Lymphoma Consortium, member of the Science Policy and Government Affairs Committee, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Chair, Latin American Regional Advisory Group, International Affairs Committee, AACR, member of the Hematologic Malignancies Task Force at AACR, member Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy (CIMM) Steering Committee at AACR, member of the FLASCO Board of Directors, and former member of the National Cancer Institute, Subcommittee A, Cancer Centers. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities at NCI.