Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology Independent Laboratory Investigators

 

James DeCaprio, MD

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

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

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

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

​Rameen Beroukhim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Beroukhim Lab Website

 

Myles Brown, MD

Myles Brown, MD
Emil Frei III Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics
Brown Lab Website

 

Toni Choueiri, MD

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

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

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

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

William Gibson, MD, PhD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Areas: Chemical Biology, Therapeutic Development, P53 Biology

 

William Hahn, MD, PhD

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

Rizwan Haq, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Ocular Melanoma Center
Haq Lab Website

 

Sarah Hill, MD, PhD

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

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

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

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

 William Kaelin, MD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 L. Schneider, MD, PhD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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