Hugo Aerts, PhD
Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology
Cancer encompasses a diverse group of neoplasms with distinct epidemiologic, genetic, pathologic, and clinical features. Translating new insights arising from cancer research into improved prevention, diagnosis, and treatment requires multi-disciplinary, interactive groups of investigators and clinicians working in an environment that permits them to bring their unique talents to bear effectively and synergistically on different aspects of these diseases.
The BRI Cancer Research Center’s mission is to promote excellence in fundamental and translational cancer research at BWH; to foster the interdisciplinary interactions that are necessary to solve central questions pertaining to cancer pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; to determine the impact of cancer and its treatment on patient quality-of-life; and to communicate these advances and insights to the larger outside community of scientists, physicians, policy makers, and the general public. In doing so, the Center helps maintain BWH’s strong leadership position in Cancer Research. During fiscal year 2023, more than 400 BWH PIs conducted cancer-related research in excess of $127 million total costs, including funding from the National Cancer Institute and several foundations for cancer-related research.
Throughout the long history of cancer research at BWH, our investigators have influenced the understanding and treatment of cancers such as a novel surgical technique (extrapleural pneumonectomy) to treat mesothelioma and identification of risk factors for breast cancer through the Nurses’ Health Study among others.
BWH investigators are nationally and internationally recognized got their contributions to advances in cancer research and are recipients of prestigious awards including being one of the only five National Cancer Institute(NCI) Ovarian Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in the United States.
Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology
Instructor, Medicine, pulmonary
Clinical Research Senior Faculty Representative
Carol C. Nadelson, MD Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry |
Director, Well-Being and Cancer Research Program |
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Neurology
President’s Scholar, 2019
Department of Pathology
Department Representative
Chair, Department of Neurology
Interim Chief, Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Department of Radiation Oncology
Professor, Medicine, Men’s Health, Endocrinology
Instructor, Medicine, Endocrinology
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine
Instructor, Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor, Surgery, Thoracic Surgery
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Research Fellow, Medicine, Division of Genetics
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ob/Gyn Epidemiology
N/A, Surgery, Surgical Oncology
Associate Professor, Pathology
Associate Professor, Medicine, Infectious disease
Assistant Professor, Surgery, Division of Breast Surgery |
Breast Oncology Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
Harvard Immunology Program, Harvard Medical School
Director of Onconephrology | Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of Renal Medicine
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Preventive Medicine
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Associate Professor, Radiology, Surgical Imaging and Mechatronics Lab
Department of Neurology
Department Representative
Fellow, Urology
Assistant Professor, Urology
Fellow, Surgery
Assistant Professor, “Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine”
Fellow, Neurosurgery
Investigator, Lead Faculty for Research and Innovation, PROVE Center, Surgery
N/A, Medicine
Associate Professor, Neurology
Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Professor, Dermatology
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary
Instructor, Medicine
Associate Professor, Medicine, Division of Genetics
N/A, Neurology, Pain/cancerpain/Chronic pain
Associate Professor, Medicine, Hematology
Fellow, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
Fellow, Surgery, Breast Surgery
Department of Surgery
Department Representative
Assistant Professor, Surgery, Surgical Oncology
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Professor, Medicine
Assistant Professor, Dermatology
Associate Professor, Medicine, Women’s Health
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Instructor, Medicine, Hematology
Fellow, Medicine, Hematology
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Assistant Professor, Dermatology
Associate Professor, Medicine, General Medicine/Primary Care
Professor, Neurosurgery, Center for Stem Cell and Translational Immunotherapy
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Research Fellow, Radiology
Professor, Radiology
Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Instructor, Pathology
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Research/NeuroOncology
Professor, Radiology, Surgery, Visual Attention Lab
N/A, Radiation Oncology
Associate Professor, Medicine, Division of Engineering in Medicine
Professor, Medicine
Manager, Investigational Drug Services
Associate Professor, Director of IMRT, Radiation Oncology
The BRI Cancer Research Center is looking for cancer researchers with a Brigham affiliation to serve on the Center’s working group. If you would like to help shape the goals and activities of the Center, please click here to indicate your interest.
To learn more about the hospital’s efforts in cancer research, visit the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center web page. For more information about the Cancer Research Center, email bwhbri@partners.org.
The following open funding opportunities are filtered by keywords related to cancer in the title, sponsor, or summary. These are a subset of the funding opportunities you can find on our main funding page here.
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