CytRx Corporation announced the appointment of Earl Warren Brien, M.D., a noted sarcoma surgeon, industry consultant, and private healthcare investor, to its board of directors. Dr. Brien is a board certified orthopedic and sarcoma surgeon who currently serves as a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Surgical Director of the Sarcoma Service at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.  He earned his medical degree from Howard University School of Medicine and completed fellowships at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Orthopedic Oncology and at the Hospital for Special Surgery at Cornell University. Over his more than twenty-year career, Dr. Brien has received numerous research grants, given over 140 scientific presentations, and been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and books.