Research Summary
Dr. Dhawan is an assistant professor in Medical Oncology and specializes in the prevention and treatment of hereditary cancer syndromes in the Center for BRCA Research as well as the development of Phase 1 clinical trials for patient with advanced cancers through the Experimental Therapeutics program. She joined UCSF for fellowship in 2014 and remains on as a faculty member. Her research interests are focused on tumors with mutations in homologous recombination, novel drug targets and preventative measures for inherited cancer predisposition syndromes.
Education
University of California, San Diego, BS, 2006, Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego, MD, 2011, Medicine
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, Residency, 2014, Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco Fellowship, 2017, Hematology/Oncology