Benjamin J. Huang, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF; Attending Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, UCSF
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF; Attending Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, UCSF
I am a physician-scientist whose research program focuses on mouse cancer modeling, molecular therapeutics, functional genomics, and biomarker discovery in hematologic cancers. My recent data indicate that targeting downstream Ras effector pathways and bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) proteins is highly synergistic in vivo and represents a novel approach for the treatment of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Additional contributions to science include collaborations that have involved RAS/NF1-driven cancers and the implementation of computational pipelines for analyzing integrated (epi)genomic preclinical and clinical data. These collaborations include recent projects that incorporate primary samples from patients enrolled on North American Children's Oncology Group clinical trials, as well as early phase clinical trials. My overall goal is to develop new therapeutic strategies in AML to inform biology-driven, genetically stratified trials of innovative drug combinations.
University of California, Berkeley, BS, 06/2005, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, San Francisco, MD, 06/2010, Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, Residency, 06/2013, Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco, Fellowship, 06/2016, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology