Dr george demetri dana farber biography

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  • George Demetri, M.D., is a physician scientist with a translational and clinical career that has led to the development of rationally targeted anti-cancer.
  • In addition to serving as the co-director of the Ludwig Center, he is an associate director for clinical sciences at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the.

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    George D. Demetri, MD

  • Improving Collection and Analysis of Overall Survival Data. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Jul 22. View in:Pubmed

  • Safety and Efficacy of the Combination Lurbinectedin plus Doxorubicin from a Phase 1b rättegång in Patients with Advanced/Metastatic Soft-Tissue Sarcoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Jul 01; 30(13):2702-2708. View in:Pubmed

  • Afamitresgene autoleucel for advanced synovial sarcoma and myxoid round fängelse liposarcoma (SPEARHEAD-1): an international, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet. 2024 Apr 13; 403(10435):1460-1471. View in:Pubmed

  • Clinical Outcomes Among Immunotherapy-Treated Patients With Primary Cardiac Soft Tissue Sarcomas: A Multicenter Retrospective Study. JACC CardioOncol. 2024 Feb; 6(1):71-79. View in:Pubmed

  • Kinase Mutations and Imatinib Response in Patients With Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor. J Clin Oncol. 2023 11 01; 41(31):4829-4836. View in:Pubmed

  • Larotrectinib efficacy and safety in adult patients with tropomyosin receptor k

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    The Second-Generation Son of Greek Immigrants, the First to Go to College, Becomes a Leader in Sarcoma Research and Treatment

    George D. Demetri, MD, FASCO, Director of the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard, was born in Hyde Park, a town along the Hudson River in New York. When Dr. Demetri was growing up there, it was known for three things: sprawling dairy farms, IBM factories, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

    “Both sets of my grandparents were immigrants to the United States from Greece before 1920. My dad was orphaned as a child in New York City, so I don’t know much about his family. After learning skills in the Army radio corps in World War II, he worked as a technician at IBM, but he never went to college; nobody in my family had gone to college before me. I was always very proud of my dad because he was part of the teams putting big mainframe computers into NASA’s uppdrag control center,” sai

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    George D. Demetri, MD

    Awards and Recognitions

    Focused Giving Program Award, Johnson and Johnson Foundation 1993

    Emil J. Freireich Award in Clinical Cancer Research 2002

    Claire W. and Richard P. Morse Research Award 2005

    Publications

    Article:

    Li FP, Fletcher JA, Heinrich MC, Garber JE, Sallan SE, Curiel-Lewandrowski C, Duensing A, van de Rijn M, Schnipper LE, Demetri GD. Familial gastrointestinal stromal tumor syndrome: phenotypic and molecular features in a kindred. J Clin Oncol 2005;23:2735-43.

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    Davis DW, Takamori R, Raut CP, Xiong HQ, Herbst RS, Stadler WM, Heymach JV, Demetri GD, Rashid A, Shen Y, Wen S, Abbruzzese JL McConkey DJ. Pharmacodynamic analysis of targeted inhibition and endothelial cell death in tumors treated with the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor antagonists SU5416 or SU6668. Clin Cancer Res 2005;11:6678-89.

    Article:

    Garcia-Carbonero R, Supko JG, Maki RG, Manola J, Ryan DP, Harmon D, Puchalski TA, Goss G, Seiden MV,

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