Dan Gabriel Duda#
| Membership Number: | 6552 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://steelelabs.mgh.harvard.edu/dan_duda/pi_bio |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7065-8797 |
| Twitter: | @danduda9 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/dan.duda.908/ |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-g-duda-7128a642/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Professor, Harvard Medical School (HMS)
- 2016/09 - present Full Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Research Institute
- 2016/10 - present Director of Translational Research in Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology, MGH
- 2015/02 - present Secretary General of the International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists, and Oncologists (IASGO)
- 2012/10 - present Associate Professor, HMS, and Assoc. Biologist, MGH
- 2007/06 -2012/09 Assistant Professor, HMS, and Assistant Biologist, MGH
- 2004/05 - 2007/06 Instructor, HMS, and Assistant in Biology, MGH
- 2001/05 - 2004/04 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MGH and HMS
- 1997/10 - 2001/04 PhD Student, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- 1995/10 - 1997/09 Resident, University of Medicine Iasi, Romania
Fields of Scholarship
- Biomarkers of response and toxicity to improve therapeutic ratio for liver cancer treatments
- Cholangiocarcinoma pathology
- Animal models of liver cancers and liver damage, and liver metastasis
- New combinatorial treatment approaches using immunotherapy for hepato-biliary pancreatic cancers
- Hepatocellular carcinoma pathology
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Honorary Master of Arts (AM) Degree, Harvard University
- 2022 Erudite Scholar-in-Residence (Kerala State Higher Education Council), India
- 2021 American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow Elect, Medical Section
- 2021 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Medicine Iasi, Romania
- 2020 College of Fellows Induction, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering/AIMBE
- 2020 Excellence Award – World Ambassador of Romanian Medicine, Romanian Academy and Medica Academica, Tarus Media
- 2018 Excellence Award, Romania-USA Chamber of Commerce
- 2017 and 2022 Keio Medical Society Honorary Lecture: Keio University Tokyo, Japan
- 2017 and 2019 Partners HealthCare Innovator Award
- 2016 Heroes of Hope Award: Granara-Skerry Trust for Pancreatic Cancer Research
- 2015 The One Hundred Honoree of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- 2014 - 2016 and 2022 - 2023 Fellow of the Andrew L. Warshaw, M.D., Institute for Pancreatic Cancer at MGH
- 2018 IASGO Lorenzo Capussotti Award (2014) and IASGO Achievement Award
- 2012 Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2008, 2010 and 2011 Ira J. Spiro Translational Research Award, MGH
- 2007 MGH Clinical Research Team Science Award
