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Program Faculty

Each scholar chooses two to four mentors to form a K12 mentoring committee, which meets together 2 times per year

Committee consists of:

  • Director Dr. Plotkin or Dr. Gonzalez Castro
  • HSPH/MGH statistician Lori Chibnik, PhD
  • Clinical and basic researchers from list of over 40 current K12 mentors
  • Note: a topic expert may be invited to committee. If not on list below, this expert is added to the Program Faculty
  • Meetings include:
    • review of progress
    • troubleshooting
    • assessment of Scholar-Mentor relationships
    • career planning

Current K12 Mentors

Below are the Faculty Names, Degree(s), their research interest, and lab website 

Bandopadhayay, Pratiti, MBBS, PhD

Identifying new therapeutic targets in pediatric brain tumors

Batchelor, Tracy, MD, MPH

Cancer Angiogenesis, Experimental Brain Imaging, Clinical Trials

Bernstein, Bradley, MD, PhD

Epigenetics, Stem Cells, Intratumoral Heterogeneity

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Beroukhim, Rameen, MD, PhD

Cancer genomics, Structural genetic alterations, Intratumoral heterogeneity

Brastianos, Priscilla, MD

Genomic drivers of human brain tumors

Cahill, Daniel, MD, PhD

Primary and metastatic brain tumors

Chibnik, Lori, PhD

Biostatistics

Chiocca, Antonio (Nino), MD, PhD

Oncolytic viruses in tumor therapy

William, Jr, Curry, MD

Cancer Immunology

Dietrich, Jorg, MD, PhD

Stem cell biology, Tumor microenvironment, Brain plasticity, Neuroimaging

Eck, Michael, MD, PhD

Structure and regulation of tyrosine kinases in cancer and on structure-based approaches to discovery of novel inhibitors; structure of formin proteins and their role in assembling the actin cytoskeleton.

Filbin, Mariella, MD, PhD

Pediatric brain tumors

Gerstner, Gerstner, MD

Brain neoplasms, Central nervous system neoplasms, Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging, Ependymoma, Glioblastoma, Glioma, Lymphoma non-hodgkin, Neovascularization pathologic, Quinazolines

Getz, Gad, PhD

Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics

Golub, Todd, MD

Cancer Genomics

Haas-Kogan, Daphne, MD

Development of novel treatments for adult and pediatric brain tumors, Radiation therapy

Haber, Daniel, MD, PhD

Cancer Genetics, Circulating Tumor Cells

Hahn, William, MD, PhD

Functional genomics, Oncogenes, Synthetic lethality

Haigis, Marcia, PhD

Molecular regulation of mitochondrial functions during aging and age-related disease

Iafrate, A. John, MD, PhD

Molecular diagnostics, Cancer genetics, Intratumoral heterogeneity

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Jain, Rakesh, PhD

Tumor angiogenesis and microenvironment, Drug Delivery, In vivo imaging, Translational research

Kaelin, Jr, William, MD

Cancer Metabolomics, Cancer Biology

Ligon, Keith, MD, PhD

Gliomas, Transcription factors, Patient derived xenografts/cell line models

Louis, David, MD

Tumor classification, Molecular diagnostics

Maus, Marella, MD, PhD

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells

Plotkin, Scott MD, PhD

Clinical trials, Neurofibromatosis, Gene therapy

Pomeroy, Scott, MD, PhD

Genomics, embryonal tumors, epigenetics

Quintana, Francisco, PhD

Identifying novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers for immune-mediated disorders

Richardson, Mark, MD, PhD

Brain electrophysiology and behavior in patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric disease; Development and optimization of electrical and biological brain modulation therapies

Reardon, David, MD

Immunotherapy, Clinical trials

Rosen, Bruce, MD, PhD

Novel Imaging of Brain Tumors

Sabatini, Bernardo, MD, PhD

Mechanisms of synapse and circuit plasticity that permit new behaviors to be learned and refined

Segal, Rosalind, MD, PhD

Pediatric brain tumors, Tumor micro-environment, Chemotherapy induced neuropathy

Shah, Khalid, MS, PhD

Stem cells, Receptor targeting, Apoptosis

Sharpe, Arlene, MD, PhD

Cancer Immunology, Immunoregulation

Shih, Helen, MD

Radiation oncology, Proton therapy, Understanding effects of ionizing radiation on the brain

Suvà, Mario, MD, PhD

Single-cell genomics, Glioma stem cells, Epigenetics

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Temel, Jennifer, MD

Advance care planning; antineoplastic agents; carcinoma, non-small-cell lung; gastrointestinal neoplasms; lung neoplasms; palliative care; quality of life; terminal care

Warren, Katherine, MD

Pediatric CNS tumors, DIPG

Wen, Patrick, MD

Novel therapeutics for brain tumors, Response criteria and clinical trial endpoints and design

Wu, Catherine, MD

Developing genomics-guided immunotherapy, Neoantigens, Cancer Vaccines

Wucherpfennig, Kai, MD, PhD

T cells, Cancer immunotherapy, Immunosuppressive mechanisms inhibiting T cells in tumors

Venkatesh, Humsa, PhD

Brain cancer and bidirectional neuron-glioma communication, Brain metastases

Yock, Torunn, MD

Measuring health outcomes, Proton radiotherapy in pediatric cancer

Zhao, Jean, PhD

Cancer Biology and Signal Transduction