Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology Independent Laboratory Investigators

James DeCaprio, MD
Chief, Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Merkel cell carcinoma, Merkel cell polyomavirus, Cell cycle gene regulation, RB and the DREAM complex
DeCaprio Lab Website

Andrew Aguirre, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Associate Director, Hale Family Research Center
Co-Director, Center for RAS Therapeutics
Research Areas: Pancreatic Cancer, RAS Biology, Genomics, Cancer Therapeutics
Aguirre Lab Website

David Barbie, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology
Associate Director, Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science
Research Areas: Lung Cancer, Targeted Therapy, Innate Immunity
Barbie Lab Website

Himisha Beltran, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Cancer Genomics
Research Areas: Prostate Cancer, Treatment Resistance, Biomarkers, Tumor biology, Precision Medicine
Beltran Lab Website
Rameen Beroukhim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Beroukhim Lab Website

Myles Brown, MD
Emil Frei III Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics
Brown Lab Website
Toni Choueiri, MD
Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Chair, Division of Genitourinary Oncology, Medical Oncology
Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology
Medical Director, International Strategic Initiatives
Research Areas: Genomics, Drug Resistance, Biomarkers, Liquid Biopsy, GU Cancers
Choueiri Lab Website

Matthew Freedman, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David Goldstein Chair at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Epigenetics
William Freed-Pastor, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Pancreatic Cancer, Tumor Immunology, Immunotherapy
Freed-Pastor Lab Website

Marios Giannakis, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Colorectal Cancer, Translational Research, Immunotherapy, Molecular Epidemiology, Wnt-signaling
Giannakis Lab Website
William Gibson, MD, PhD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Chemical Biology, Therapeutic Development, P53 Biology

William Hahn, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Oncogene Cooperation, Functional Genomics, Synthetic Lethality, Epithelial Transformation
Hahn Lab Website

Rizwan Haq, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Ocular Melanoma Center
Haq Lab Website
Sarah Hill, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Women's Cancer, BRCA1, Replication Stress, DNA Damage Repair, Replication Origins
Hill Lab Website
Megan Insco, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Melanoma, RNA Quality Control, Transcription, Novel Therapeutics, Zebrafish Animal Modeling
Insco Lab Website
Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David M. Livingston, MD, Chair at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Senior Vice President for Translational Medicine
Director, Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science
Research Areas: Lung Cancer; Targeted Therapies, Drug Resistance, Preclinical and Clinical Drug Development
Jänne Lab Website

Rinath Jeselsohn, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Breast Oncology Center
Jeselsohn Lab Website

William Kaelin, MD
Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Nobel Prize Laureate, 2019
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kaelin Lab Website

Donald Kufe, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Leader, DF/HCC Experimental Therapeutics Program
Research Areas: MUC1-C Oncoprotein, Pluripotency, Drug Resistance, Immune Evasion
Kufe Lab Website

Julie Aurore Losman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Acute Myeloid Leukemia; Cancer Cell Metabolism; Epigenetics

Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Director, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery
Meyerson Lab Website
Constantine Mitsiades, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Treatment/Immunotherapy Resistance, Tumor Microenvironment, Multiple Myeloma, Solid Tumor Metastasis, Functional Genomics

Matthew Oser, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Small Cell Lung Cancer, Lineage Plasticity, Epigenetics, Neuroendocrine Transcription Factors
Oser Lab Website

Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Leader, DF/HCC Cancer Cell Biology Program
Center for Cancer Epigenetics
Research Areas: Breast Cancer, Tumor Evolution, Heterogeneity, DCIS, Cancer Prevention
Polyak Lab Website
Srivatsan Raghavan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Pancreatic and Biliary Cancer, Plasticity and Evolution of cancer cell states, Tumor Microenvironment, Organoid Modeling, Cancer Therapeutics
Jaime Schneider, MD, PhD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Tumor Metabolism, Translational Models, Therapeutic Resistance, Oncogene Addiction, Tumor Microenvironment, Aging, Lung Cancer
Schneider Lab Website
William Sellers, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/DFCI
Core Institute Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Research Areas: Functional Genomics, Cancer Therapeutics
Sellers Lab Website

Nilay Sethi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, DF/MGB Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program
Gastrointestinal Cancer Center
Research Areas: Gastrointestinal Cancer
Sethi Lab Website

Geoffrey Shapiro, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Vice-President, Developmental Therapeutics, DFCI
Clinical Director, Center for DNA Damage and Repair

Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, Chair at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Deputy Director, DF/HCC
Center for Cancer Epigenetics
Research Areas: Cell Differentiation, Transcriptional Regulation, Stem Cell Biology, Intestinal Stem Cells, Epigenetic Control Mechanisms
Shivdasani Lab Website

Ravi Uppaluri, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Director, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Research Areas: Head and Neck Cancers, Immunotherapy, Treatment Resistance
Uppaluri Lab Website

Srinivas Viswanathan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Genomics, Functional Genomics, Genitourinary Cancer, RNA Binding Proteins
Viswanathan Lab Website

Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Robert T. and Judith B. Hale Chair in Pancreatic Cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center
Co-Director, Pancreas and Biliary Tumor Center
Director, Hale Family Research Center










