Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Research Opportunities
Supporting Physician-Scientists
Following the comprehensive clinical experiences of the first year of the hematology/oncology fellowship, trainees spend the majority of the second year and third years of fellowship devoted to basic, translational or clinical research.
A variety of research opportunities are available throughout the Department of Medicine and across other Departments at BIDMC, including Surgery, Pathology, Radiology and Palliative Care. Fellows also have an opportunity to engage in research projects at fellow Harvard teaching hospitals—most of which are just a block or two from BIDMC’s main campus—and at many other biomedical research institutions throughout Boston.
Supporting Our Fellows
Faculty members will meet with fellows early on in their clinical fellowship to discuss research interests and long-term career goals. We will assist fellows in identifying faculty mentors with whom fellows may wish to work. While we are unable to guarantee support for fellows who choose to pursue research opportunities outside of BIDMC, our goal is to help fellows craft programs that best serve them in achieving their long-term career goals.
Opportunities Across BIDMC
Learn more about exciting areas of research throughout BIDMC:
We have diverse and active clinical investigative initiatives in:
- Hematopoietic cell transplantation
- Biologic and immunotherapies
- Cellular therapies
- Genitourinary malignancies
- Breast cancer
- Lung cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- Gastrointestinal malignancies
- AIDS-related malignancies
- Developmental therapeutics
- Hemostasis and thrombosis
Basic research programs include:
- Signal transduction and growth regulation
- The role of transcription factors in hematopoiesis
- Molecular analysis of hematopoietic stem cell differentiation
- Biology of prostate cancer and the molecular basis of hormone-independent prostate cancer growth
- Biology of AIDS-related malignancies
- T-cell receptor biology as applied to gene therapy
- Hemostasis, thrombosis, and vascular biology
- Cancer-related thrombosis
- Platelet biology
- Molecular retrovirology and HIV-gene therapy
- The immunobiology of cytokines
- Cellular therapies