Brian Van Tine, MD, PhD

Washington University in St. Louis Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics

Dr. Van Tine is the Sarcoma Program Director, Director of the Phase 1 Program at Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center and Co-Director of the Adolescence and Young Adult Program at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center. He came to Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital where he did his Internal Medicine Residency and Medical Oncology Fellowship after completing his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2005. He then joined the laboratories of James J.D. Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D. and then Matthew Ellis, M.B., B.Chir., Ph.D., where he pursued his postdoctoral fellowship studying mouse genetics and genomics while clinically specializing in the treatment of sarcoma. His translational laboratory identified a common metabolic defect in sarcoma, the loss of ASS1 expression. His lab is currently working toward translating this finding and many others into the clinic via clinical trials.  

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