Participating Program Faculty
Each scholar chooses 2-4 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:
| # | Faculty Name/Degree(s) | Link to DFHCC site or other website | Lab website | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bandopadhayay, Pratiti, MBBS, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/pratiti-mimi-bandopadhayay-mbbs-phd/ | Identifying new therapeutic targets in pediatric brain tumors | |
2 | Batchelor, Tracy, MD, MPH | http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/tracy-t-batchelor-md-mph/ | _ | Cancer Angiogenesis, Experimental Brain Imaging, Clinical Trials |
3 | Bernstein, Bradley, MD, PhD | http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/bradley-e-bernstein-md-phd/ | Epigenetics, Stem Cells, Intratumoral Heterogeneity | |
4 | Beroukhim, Rameen, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/rameen-beroukhim-md-phd/ | Cancer genomics, Structural genetic alterations, Intratumoral heterogeneity | |
5 | Brastianos, Priscilla, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/priscilla-kaliopi-brastianos-md/ | Genomic drivers of human brain tumors | |
6 | Cahill, Daniel, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/daniel-p-cahill-md-phd/ | Primary and metastatic brain tumors | |
7 | Carter, Bob, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/bob-carter-md-phd/ | _ | Brain tumors, Exosomes, Mortality outcomes in neurosurgery, Neurologic cancer, Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical procedures |
8 | Chibnik, Lori, PhD | _ | Biostatistics | |
9 | Chiocca, Antonio (Nino), MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/nino-chiocca-md-phd/ | Oncolytic viruses in tumor therapy | |
10 | William, Jr, Curry, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/william-t-curry-md/ | _ | Cancer Immunology |
11 | Dietrich, Jorg, MD, PhD | _ | Stem cell biology, Tumor microenvironment, Brain plasticity, Neuroimaging | |
12 | Eck, Michael, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/michael-j-eck-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. | |
13 | Filbin, Mariella, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/mariella-g-filbin-md-phd/ | Pediatric brain tumors | |
14 | Gerstner, Gerstner, MD | researchers.mgh.harvard.edu/profile/317740/Elizabeth-Gerstner | _ | Brain neoplasms, Central nervous system neoplasms, Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging, Ependymoma, Glioblastoma, Glioma, Lymphoma non-hodgkin, Neovascularization pathologic, Quinazolines |
15 | Getz, Gad, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/gad-getz-phd/ | Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics | |
16 | Golub, Todd, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/todd-r-golub-md/ | Cancer Genomics | |
17 | Haas-Kogan, Daphne, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/daphne-haas-kogan-md/ | _ | Development of novel treatments for adult and pediatric brain tumors, Radiation therapy |
18 | Haber, Daniel, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/daniel-a-haber-md-phd/ | Cancer Genetics, Circulating Tumor Cells | |
19 | Hahn, William, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/william-c-hahn-md-phd/ | Functional genomics, Oncogenes, Synthetic lethality | |
20 | Haigis, Marcia, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/marcia-haigis/ | Molecular regulation of mitochondrial functions during aging and age-related disease | |
21 | Iafrate, A. John, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/john-iafrate/ | Molecular diagnostics, Cancer genetics, Intratumoral heterogeneity | |
22 | Jain, Rakesh, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/rakesh-k-jain-phd/ | Tumor angiogenesis and microenvironment, Drug Delivery, In vivo imaging, Translational research | |
23 | Kaelin, Jr, William, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/william-g-kaelin-jr-md/ | Cancer Metabolomics, Cancer Biology | |
24 | Ligon, Keith, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/keith-l-ligon-md-phd/ | Gliomas, Transcription factors, Patient derived xenografts/cell line models | |
25 | Louis, David, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/david-n-louis-md/ | _ | Tumor classification, Molecular diagnostics |
26 | Maus, Marella, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/marcela-v-maus-md-phd/ | Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells | |
27 | Plotkin, Scott MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/scott-r-plotkin-md-phd/ | _ | Clinical trials, Neurofibromatosis, Gene therapy |
28 | Pomeroy, Scott, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/scott-l-pomeroy-md-phd/ | _ | Genomics, embryonal tumors, epigenetics |
29 | Quintana, Francisco, PhD | Identifying novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers for immune-mediated disorders | ||
30 | Richardson, Mark, MD, PhD | connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/182662 | 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 | |
31 | Reardon, David, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/david-a-reardon-md/ | Immunotherapy, Clinical trials | |
32 | Rosen, Bruce, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/bruce-r-rosen-md-phd/ | _ | Novel Imaging of Brain Tumors |
33 | Sabatini, Bernardo, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/bernardo-sabatini-md-phd/ | Mechanisms of synapse and circuit plasticity that permit new behaviors to be learned and refined | |
34 | Segal, Rosalind, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/rosalind-a-segal-md-phd/ | Pediatric brain tumors, Tumor micro-environment, Chemotherapy induced neuropathy | |
35 | Shah, Khalid, MS, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/khalid-shah-ms-phd/ | Stem cells, Receptor targeting, Apoptosis | |
36 | Sharpe, Arlene, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/arlene-h-sharpe-md-phd/ | Cancer Immunology, Immunoregulation | |
37 | Shih, Helen, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/helen-a-shih-md/ | _ | Radiation oncology, Proton therapy, Understanding effects of ionizing radiation on the brain |
38 | Suvà, Mario, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/mario-l-suva-md-phd/ | Single-cell genomics, Glioma stem cells, Epigenetics. | |
39 | Warren, Katherine, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/katherine-warren-md/ | _ | Pediatric CNS tumors, DIPG |
40 | Wen, Patrick, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/patrick-y-wen-md/ | _ | Novel therapeutics for brain tumors, Response criteria and clinical trial endpoints and design |
41 | Wu, Catherine, MD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/catherine-j-wu-md/ | Developing genomics-guided immunotherapy, Neoantigens, Cancer Vaccines | |
42 | Wucherpfennig, Kai, MD, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/kai-w-wucherpfennig-md-phd/ | T cells, Cancer immunotherapy, Immunosuppressive mechanisms inhibiting T cells in tumors | |
43 | Venkatesh, Humsa, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/humsa-venkatesh-phd/ | Brain cancer and bidirectional neuron-glioma communication, Brain metastases | |
44 | Yock, Torunn, MD | _ | Measuring health outcomes, Proton radiotherapy in pediatric cancer | |
45 | Zhao, Jean, PhD | www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/jean-j-zhao-phd/ | Cancer Biology and Signal Transduction |