2ⁿᵈ Edition of the Cancer R&D World Conference 2026

Speakers - CRDWC 2025

A. Thomas Look, Cancer R&D World Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

A. Thomas Look

A. Thomas Look

  • Designation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Country: USA

Biography

A. Thomas Look, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  Look received his M.D. degree and postgraduate training in Pediatrics from the University of Michigan and his fellowship training in Pediatric Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he advanced over twenty years to become Chair of the Experimental Oncology Department and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He moved from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in 1999 specifically to establish a research program in the zebrafish as a model of human cancer. 

Over the past four decades, Look has published 394 peer-reviewed papers addressing the molecular basis of malignant transformation, aberrant proliferation and apoptosis in cancer cells and the application of molecular genetic findings to improve the treatment of malignancies of children and adults, particularly T-cell acute leukemia, neuroblastoma and myelodysplastic syndrome.