Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Independent Laboratory Investigators
James DeCaprio, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Research Areas: Merkel cell carcinoma, Merkel cell polyomavirus, Cell cycle gene regulation, RB and the DREAM complex DeCaprio Lab Website |
Andrew Aguirre, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Research Areas: Pancreatic Cancer, RAS Biology, Genomics, Cancer Therapeutics Investigator, Hale Family Research Center Aguirre Lab Website |
David Barbie, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 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 Research Areas: Prostate Cancer, Treatment Resistance, Biomarkers, Tumor biology, Precision Medicine Beltran Lab Website |
Myles Brown, MD
Emil Frei III Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics Brown Lab Website |
William Freed-Pastor, MD, PhD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Research Areas: Pancreatic Cancer, Tumor Immunology, Immunotherapy Freed-Pastor Lab Website |
Marios Giannakis, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Research Areas: Colorectal Cancer, Translational Research, Immunotherapy, Molecular Epidemiology, Wnt-signaling Giannakis Lab Website |
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 |
Sarah Hill, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Research Areas: Organoids, Ovarian Cancer, DNA Damage Repair, Immuno-oncology, Replication Stress Hill Lab Website |
Megan Insco, MD, PhD
Instructor 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 Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology 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
Assistant 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 Pathology and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Director, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery (CCGD) 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 |
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Co-Leader, DF/HCC Cancer Cell Biology Program Research Areas: Breast Cancer, Tumor Evolution, Heterogeneity, DCIS, Cancer Prevention Center for Cancer Epigenetics Polyak Lab Website |
Srivatsan Raghavan, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Research Areas: Pancreatic and Biliary Cancer, Plasticity and Evolution of cancer cell states, Tumor Microenvironment, Organoid Modeling, Cancer Therapeutics |
Barrett Rollins, MD, PhD
Linde Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Dean for Academic Programs, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Research Areas: Histiocytosis, Chemokines Rollins 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, Drug Development, DFCI Clinical Director, Center for DNA Damage and Repair |
Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Research Areas: Cell Differentiation, Transcriptional Regulation, Stem Cell Biology, Intestinal Stem Cells, Epigenetic Control Mechanisms Deputy Director, DF/HCC Shivdasani Lab Website |
Ravi Uppaluri, MD, PhD
Associate 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
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Research Areas: Genomics, Functional Genomics, Genitourinary Cancer, RNA Binding Proteins Viswanathan Lab Website |
Nikhil Wagle, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Count Me In: Patient-Partnered Research Wagle Lab Website |
Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center Co-Director, Pancreas and Biliary Tumor Center Director, Hale Family Research Center |
Molecular and Cellular Oncology Affiliated Investigators
Rameen Beroukhim, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Beroukhim Lab Website |
Jennifer L. Guerriero, PhD
Lead Investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Director, Breast Tumor Immunology Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Instructor, Harvard Medical School Guerriero Lab Website |
Alexander Gusev, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Member, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Member, Cancer Risk, Prevention, and Early Detection |
Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, MD, PhD
Rob and Karen Hale Distinguished Chair in Surgical Oncology Associate Chair, Research, Department of Surgery Brigham and Women’s Hospital Director, Breast Immuno-Oncology Program, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Mittendorf Lab Website |
Jun Qi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Research Areas: Epigenetics, Drug Discovery, Chemical Biology Qi Lab Website |