Translational Lung Cancer Group | Icahn School of Medicine

Translational Lung Cancer Group

Fred R Hirsch, MD, PhD

Executive Director at the Center for Thoracic Oncology

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RESEARCH

Translational Lung Cancer Group

We are a multi-disciplinary group of surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, medical oncologists, genomicists, immunologists and epidemiologists whose goal is to prevent, diagnose, treat and improve the lives of patients with lung cancer diseases.

Together, we search for improved imaging methods that detect lung cancer lesions as early as possible during tumor progression. We also study how tumor cell genetics and tumor cells interactions with its surrounding cellular microenvironment contribute to tumor outcome. We are particularly interested in exploring how the tumor immune cell microenvironment contribute to disease course and tumor response to immunotherapy, targeted therapies and conventional treatment with the ultimate goal of harnessing immune cell biology to improve antitumor therapies.

This group also oversees the distribution and utilization of lung tissue specimens in the context of growing research demand and aim to facilitate the ongoing innovative lung cancer research at Mount Sinai aimed at deepening our knowledge of this disease and finding new ways to fight it.

Meet the Director

Fred R Hirsch, MD, PhD

PROFESSOR | Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

PROFESSOR | Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine

Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD, FASCO is the Ning Zhao Chair and Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology) and Pathology and...

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Meet our Team

Mary B Beasley, MD

Mary B Beasley, MD

PROFESSOR | Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine

PROFESSOR | Medicine

Michael J Donovan, PhD, MD

Michael J Donovan, PhD, MD

RESEARCH PROFESSOR | Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine

Raja M Flores, MD

Raja M Flores, MD

PROFESSOR AND SYSTEM CHAIR | Thoracic Surgery

Jorge E Gomez, MD

Jorge E Gomez, MD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

Sacha Gnjatic, PhD

Sacha Gnjatic, PhD

PROFESSOR | Immunology & Immunotherapy

PROFESSOR | Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine

PROFESSOR | Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

PROFESSOR | Oncological Sciences

Claudia I Henschke, PhD, MD

Claudia I Henschke, PhD, MD

CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

DEAN FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND THERAPEUTIC INNOVATION

CHAIR | Immunology & Immunotherapy

DIRECTOR, PRECISION IMMUNOLOGY INSTITUTE

ROBIN CHEMERS NEUSTEIN PROFESSOR OF IMMUNOLOGY

PROFESSOR | Immunology & Immunotherapy

PROFESSOR | Oncological Sciences

PROFESSOR | Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

PROFESSOR | Dermatology

Charles A Powell, MD, MBA

Charles A Powell, MD, MBA

DIRECTOR, MOUNT SINAI-NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH RESPIRATORY INSTITUTE

PROFESSOR | Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Kenneth Rosenzweig, MD

Kenneth Rosenzweig, MD

PROFESSOR AND SYSTEM CHAIR | Radiation Oncology

Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD

Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD

DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR TRANSLATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy

PROFESSOR | Thoracic Surgery

Hideo Watanabe, MD, PhD

Hideo Watanabe, MD, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences

David F Yankelevitz, MD

David F Yankelevitz, MD

PROFESSOR | Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology

Maureen F Zakowski, MD

Maureen F Zakowski, MD

PROFESSOR | Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine

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