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Dr. Hanash’s interests and expertise focus on developing and applying integrated approaches to the molecular profiling of cancer, with emphasis on proteomics. Dr. Hanash’s Ph.D. is in Human Genetics with clinical training in Pediatric Oncology. He has been a program principal investigator (PI) for multi-investigator projects funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) while at the University of Michigan, including program projects and most recently, PI for an NCI-funded Director’s Challenge program, focused on molecular profiling of lung, colon and ovarian cancers and PI of a NCI-funded Cancer Biomarker Development program, focused on the applying proteomics to the discovery of protein markers for early diagnosis of lung and GI cancers. Dr. Hanash has organized and participated in several workshops sponsored by the NCI related to cancer diagnostics and molecular profiling. Dr. Hanash relocated from the University of Michigan to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (August 1, 2004) to lead a newly developed program in Molecular Diagnostics. Dr. Hanash will serve as program director for this project and will supervise all project personnel. Dr. Hanash is the former and first President of HuPO, the Human Proteome Organization. This prestigious international society will help set the research agenda in proteomics for years to come. Dr. Hanash earned his M.D. from the American University of Beirut and his Ph.D. in human genetics from University of Michigan. | 