Associate Member and Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ping Chi, MD, PhD, is an Associate Member in the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) and an Associate Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College. She is a graduate of the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, fellowship training in Medical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and a concurrent postdoctoral training in epigenetics and chromatin biology in the C. David Allis’ lab at the Rockefeller University. Her laboratory research focuses on understanding the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of transcriptional activation of novel oncogenic transcripts and oncogenic transcription factors in solid tumor malignancies, particularly in solid tumors with alterations in PRC2 complex or factors that regulate chromatin topology. Through mechanistic studies, she aims to identify novel therapeutic strategies to target oncogenic transcription factors and novel mechanisms of aberrant transcriptional activation of oncogenes. She also maintains an active academic clinical practice, leads early phase clinical trials and works with a multidisciplinary team to care for patients with melanoma and sarcomas, with the goal to expedite clinical translation of laboratory research.