Glimcher is also director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and is the Richard and Susan Smith professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Earlier, she was the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss dean and professor of medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine as well as provost for medical affairs at Cornell University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Cancer Research Institute, and past president of the American Association of Immunologists. Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School since 1991. Dr. Glimcher is a Director of Waters Corporation. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institutes of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Irvington Institute Fellowship Committee. She sits on the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Board of Scientific Consultants and on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, Center for Blood Research, Health Care Ventures, Inc., and Sandler Foundation Fund.