Legorreta Cancer Center

Cancer Therapeutics Program

The Program has depth of expertise in disease-based adult and pediatric oncology, pathology, and clinical investigations.

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Cancer Therapeutics Program

The Program has depth of expertise in disease-based adult and pediatric oncology, pathology, and clinical investigations.

Program Leaders

Benedito Carneiro, MD, MS

Co-Leader of Cancer Therapeutics Program
Howard Safran, MD

Associate Director for Clinical Research; Co-Leader, Cancer Therapeutics Program

The Cancer Therapeutics Program brings together clinical investigators who work together with basic and translational scientists to advance promising therapeutic options to patients in clinical trials. Program meetings are held every two weeks throughout the year. There is a robust portfolio of early phase clinical trials led by investigators through the Brown University Oncology Group (BrUOG), Brown University Health Cancer Institute and Women's and Infants Hospital. The Program has depth of expertise in disease-based adult and pediatric oncology, pathology, and clinical investigations. The early phase experimental therapeutics effort has a strong focus on cell death pathways and immunotherapy.

Program members interact with the Cancer Biology Program to bring forward novel biomarkers as well as therapeutics into early phase clinical trials. Efforts to translate novel concepts are supported by the Translational Research Disease Groups (TRDGs), which are additional cancer disease-based group meetings that occur in parallel to the Cancer Therapeutics Program Meetings. Each of the 11 disease-based TRDGs meets every 2-3 months, with emerging projects being presented at the Cancer Therapeutics Program meetings.

Members

Abbas Abbas, MD

Professor of Surgery
Khaldoun Almhanna, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Christopher Azzoli, MD

Jeffrey A. Brown and Barbara Horovitz Brown Associate Professor of Translational Medicine
Peter Barth, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Ariel Birnbaum, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Rimini Breakstone, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Benedito Carneiro, MD, MS

Co-Leader of Cancer Therapeutics Program
Liang Cheng, MD

Associate Director for Shared Resources
Bradley DeNardo, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator
Paul DiSilvestro, MD

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Don Dizon, MD, FACP, FASCO

Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement
Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP

Director, Cancer Center at Brown University, Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences, Mencoff Family University Professor of Medical Science, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Heinrich Elinzano, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator; Associate Professor of Neurology, Clinician Educator
Mary Ann Fenton, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Ziya Gokaslan, MD

Chair of Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurosurgery
Stephanie Graff, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Sheldon Holder, MD, PhD

Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Emily Hsu, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Suchitra Kamle, PhD

Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (Research)
Hina Khan, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
DaeHee Kim, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
Timothy Kinsella, MD

Professor Emeritus of Radiation Oncology
Paul Koffer, MD

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Galina Lagos, MD

Assistant Professor of Medcine
Sean Lawler, PhD

Co-Leader, Brain Cancer Research emerging program
Chun Geun Lee, PhD

Professor of Molecular Biology and Immunology (Research)
Rishi Lulla, MD, MS

Associate Director for Pediatric Oncology
Sendurai Mani, PhD

Associate Director for Translation
Aaron Maxwell, MD

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
Anthony Mega, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Clinician Educator; Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Thomas Miner, MD, FACS

Associate Director for Surgical Oncology
Alexander Raufi, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
John Reagan, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Howard Safran, MD

Associate Director for Clinical Research; Co-Leader, Cancer Therapeutics Program
Sasmit Sarangi, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Attila Seyhan, PhD

Director of Translational Oncology Operations, Legorreta Cancer Center, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
William Sikov, MD

Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Clinician Educator; Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Anubhav Tripathi, PhD

Director of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Engineering
Shoba Vasudevan, PhD

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
David Wazer, MD

Chair of Radiation Oncology; Professor of Radiation Oncology
Lei Wei, MD, PhD

Asssociate Professor of Orthopaedics (Research)
Eric Wong, MD

Associate Director for Neuro-Oncology
Mamiko Yajima, PhD

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (Research)
Ting Zhao, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery (Research)
Lanlan Zhou, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Research)
Shougang Zhuang, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Research)