Keith L. Ligon, MD, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Academic Titles

Associate Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Research Program Affiliation

Member, Neuro-Oncology

Research Abstract

The focus of my work is on the basic and translational investigation of brain tumors. We specifically study developmental transcription factors and their role in brain tumor formation and neural stem cell biology. Translational studies in the lab utilize genomics and pathology tools to study human tumors. Our lab has expertise in adult and pediatric gliomas and specifically our work has focused on use of human patient derived cell line and patient derived xenograft models (PDCL, PDX), mouse genetic models (GEMMs). We also have extensive collaborations around human clinical trials for brain tumors and development of biomarkers to improve outcomes of brain tumor patients.