Alan D'Andrea

Who is Alan D'Andrea?

Dr. Alan D. D'Andrea, MD is an American cancer researcher and the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. D'Andrea's research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute focuses on chromosome instability and cancer susceptibility. He is currently the director of the DFCI Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory and the Director of the Clinical Gene Therapy Center at Boston Children's Hospital.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. D'Andrea cloned the erythropoietin receptor, a protein known to rescue red blood cell progenitors from apoptosis.