Faculty Profiles

Lewis A. Chodosh, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology, Cell & Developmental Biology and Medicine
Director, Cancer Genetics, Abramson Family Cancer Center Institute
Leader, Breast Cancer Program, Abramson Cancer Center

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Biography

After graduating with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1981, Dr. Chodosh earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from M.I.T. in 1989 in the laboratory of Dr. Phillip Sharp. Dr. Chodosh received his clinical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal Medicine and in Endocrinology, followed by postdoctoral research with Dr. Philip Leder in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School where he studied transgenic animal models of breast cancer.

Dr. Chodosh joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and joined the faculty of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 as an Associate Investigator. Dr. Chodosh is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Cancer Biology, where he serves as Vice Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Dr. Chodosh’s laboratory (http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/abramson/chodosh.html) is focused on the use of genetically engineered mouse models to study breast cancer and the normal developmental biology of the mammary gland. He is a past Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Scholar in the Medical Sciences and currently serves on the advisory board for the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study.