Volker Hovestadt, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Academic Titles

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Research Program Affiliation

Member, Neuro-Oncology

Member, Cancer Data Sciences

Research Abstract

I am a computational biologist at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorder Center and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. My lab and I study pediatric brain tumors, the leading cause of cancer-related death in children. Treating children with brain tumors remains a major challenge as effective therapies are often lacking. We develop and apply novel genomic and computational tools to better understand cancer biology, diagnose tumors more accurately, and treat patients more effectively.