University of Southern California, United States
David D. Tran, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurological Surgery and Neurology, Chief, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Co-Director, USC Brain Tumor Center, University of Southern California Keck Medicine.
Dr. David Tran received his MD and PhD degrees from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 2005 and completed his postgraduate training in Oncology and Neuro-Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis in 2011. He is a leader in Precision Medicine and a NIH/NCI-funded investigator focusing on the cause of cancer progression and the development of novel precision cancer therapies in brain and breast cancers. He has authored many seminal publications in cancer research and serves as the principal investigator of several national clinical trials in brain and breast tumors. Research in the Tran laboratory focuses on understanding the molecular mechanism of how cancer develops, progresses, and resists treatment through a vertically integrated approach, starting with clinical observations, guided by systems and computational analyses, validated experimentally, and translated into novel, safe and effective anti-cancer therapeutics.