Cancer Research Institute Faculty

Meet the Research Team

Cancer Research Institute faculty are committed to improving patients’ lives through transformative science. Our researchers are advancing personalized, patient-centered care across the continuum of basic, translational, and clinical discovery.

Muneeb Ahmed, MD

Ramy Arnaout, MD, PhD

Jon E. Arnason, MD

John M. Asara, PhD

David Avigan, MD Director, BIDMC Cancer Center
Chief, Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies

Steven P. Balk, MD, PhD Balk Lab

Giada Bianchi, MD

Vicki A. Boussiotis, MD, PhD

Glenn Bubley, MD

Stuart K. Calderwood, PhD

Alain Charest, PhD

John G. Clohessy, PhD

Steven E. Come, MD

Daniel B. Costa, MD, PhD Scholarship Advisor, Medical Oncology

Richard D. Cummings, PhD Division Chief, Surgical Sciences

Vandana Dialani, MD

Christian Dibble, PhD

Annalisa DiRuscio, MD, PhD

Marc Garnick, MD

Yu Jing Heng, PhD

Lauren Hertan, MD

Winston Hide, PhD

Robin Joyce, MD

Antoine E. Karnoub, PhD Post-Doctoral Scholars Program Director Karnoub Lab

Susumu Kobayashi, MD, PhD Kobayashi Lab

Jack W. Lawler, PhD

Towia A. Liberman, PhD

David F. McDermott, MD Chief, Division of Medical Oncology, BIDMC

Taru Muranen, PhD

Carmelo Nucera, MD, PhD

Dipak Panigrahy, MD

Elena Piskounova, PhD

Deepa Rangachari, MD Director, Graduate Medical Education
Program Director, Hematology-Oncology Fellowship

Jacalyn M. Rosenblatt, MD Deputy Director, Immunotherapy Institute
Scholarship Advisor, Hematology & Hematologic Malignancies

Lowell Schnipper, MD

Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH Schonberg Lab

Daniel Schmidt, MD, PhD

Ralph Scully, PhD, MBBS

Frank Slack, PhD Director, Cancer Research Institute

Mary Ann Stevenson, MD, PhD

Daniel G. Tenen, MD Tenen Lab

Cornelis Terhorst, PhD

Alex Toker, PhD Associate Director, Cancer Research Institute Toker Lab

Peter Tsvetkov, PhD

Hemant Varma, MD, PhD

Ioannis Vlachos, PhD

Barbara Wegiel, PhD

Wenyi Wei, PhD Wei Lab

Kipp Weiskopf, MD

Jingyi Wu, PhD Wu Lab

Gerburg Wulf, MD, PhD Wulf Lab

Xin Yuan, MD, DSc

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