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Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD

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Departments/Divisions
Hematology/Oncology
Medicine

Specialty
oncology

Service/Program
Oncology

Clinical Title
Attending Staff in Medicine

Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

Professional History
 
Medical/Dental School
University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX (1996)

Fellowship
Children's Hospital Boston / Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA (1998-2001)

Research Activities

  • MLL-dependent Myeloid Leukemia, Cancer Stem Cells
    • Use of expression profiling to identify Flt3 and other genes that characterize MLL-rearranged leukemias. (Nat Genet 30:41, 2002)
    • Application of FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors to the treatment of MLL-rearranged leukemias (Cancer Cell 3:173, 2003; Blood 106:2454, 2005)
    • Hox gene dysregulation in MLL-rearranged T-lineage and B-precursor acute leukemias (Blood 102:262, 2003)
    • Definition of antiapoptotic factors required for cancer cell survival (Cancer Cell 9:351, 2006)
    • Molecular biogenesis of leukemic stem cells (Nature 442:818, 2006)
       
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    Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD  
       

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