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Adrienne Gropper Waks, MD

Highlights

  • Staff physician in breast oncology at the Dana-Farber Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers
  • Associate director of clinical research for breast oncology at the Dana-Farber Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers
  • Instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School
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After a clinical and research fellowship in medical oncology at Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, Dr. Waks now serves as a staff physician in breast oncology at the Dana-Farber Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers, where she is also associate director of clinical research for breast oncology, and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. She conducts clinical and translational research to develop new treatments and new treatment approaches for breast cancer patients and to better understand mechanisms of response and resistance. She has particular interests in the immune microenvironment and in HER2-positive breast cancer.