Discipline

Medical Oncologist

Research Department

Medical Oncology/Solid Tumor Oncology

Interests

Gastrointestinal cancers, Gastric cancer

Biography

Dr. Fuchs is Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also leads the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Gastrointestinal Malignancies Program and the DF/HCC SPORE Grant in Gastrointestinal Cancers, and he is the extramural leader for the NCI-sponsored Genome-Wide Association Study in Pancreatic Cancer (PanScan). Dr. Fuchs splits his time between laboratory-based research, clinical research, and clinical care. His laboratory focuses on biochemical markers of gastrointestinal cancer risk, molecular predictors of patient prognosis in colorectal and pancreatic cancers, and the discovery of novel targets for cancer therapy. Dr. Fuchs has also led numerous national and international clinical trials assessing novel targeted therapies for GI malignancies. Dr. Fuchs is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer and a cadre member of GI Committee for Cancer and Leukemia Group B. Dr. Fuchs has over 270 scientific publications in such journals as The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cell, and Nature.

Background

Board Certification
Internal Medicine, 1989
Medical Oncology, 1991

Fellowship
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Hematology/Oncology

Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Chief Medical Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Internal Medicine

Medical School
Harvard Medical School

Recent Awards

• Lee Nadler Extra Mile Award, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 2007
• Tisch Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 2007
• George P. Canellos Award for Excellence in Clinical Investigation and Patient Care, DFCI, 1999
• Academic Award, Preventive Oncology, National Institutes of Health, 1995
• Emil Frei Clinical Investigator Award, DFCI, 1995