Faculty

Physician-scientist Samuel Singer studies the genomic alterations that define new targets for therapy in sarcoma. I am a surgical oncologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of soft tissue sarcoma. I have extensive experience with this group of cancers, and am one of just a few surgeons in the world focused solely on treating sarcoma patients. My years of experience have enabled me to devise surgical techniques that improve the ability to completely remove these tumors. In addition to my clinical sarcoma practice, I conduct laboratory research to develop new methods to improve the diagnosis and treatment of sarcoma. I lead both a National Cancer Institute Specialized Program in Research Excellence (SPORE) and the Sarcoma Genome Project.

• MD, Harvard Medical School

Computational biologist Ruslan Soldatov develops computational methods to study cell fate decisions and somatic evolution in normal tissues and cancer.

• PhD, Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Moscow, Russia)

Physician-scientist David Solit studies human oncology and pathogenesis, genomics, oncogenes and tumor suppressors, cancer therapeutics, and clinical trials.

• MD, University of Pennsylvania

The Studer laboratory investigates human stem cells as tools to understand normal and pathological development in the nervous system and to develop cell-based strategies for regenerative medicine.

• MD, Universitat Bern

Immunologist Joseph Sun investigates the natural killer cell response against infection and cancer.

• PhD, University of Washington

Physician-scientist Viviane Tabar focuses on stem cells as tools for brain repair and for modeling brain cancer.

• MD, American University of Beirut

Cancer biologist Tuomas Tammela investigates cellular heterogeneity in lung and pancreatic cancers.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Postdoctoral Fellowship
• University of Helsinki, Finland: MD, PhD

Derek Tan’s lab studies diversity-oriented synthesis and rational drug design of probes and lead compounds for chemical biology and drug discovery.

• BS, Stanford University
• PhD, Harvard University

The Tansey lab focuses on solving frontier problems in cancer data science through the development of innovative statistical machine learning methods.

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Craig Thompson studies molecular signaling pathways that regulate nutrient uptake and the role these pathways play in the regulation of cell growth and survival.

• MD, University of Pennsylvania