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Dr. Howard A. Fine Recruited By NCI To Head Neuro-Oncology Branch

In 2000, Dr. Fine was recruited to establish and run the Neuro-Oncology Branch at NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, and of the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke.

Dr. Fine received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. He completed both his internship and his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania. Three years later he completed his fellowship in medical oncology at Harvard Medical School’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.

Before joining the NIH, Dr. Fine was director of the Neuro-Oncology Disease Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and director of the Neuro-Oncology Program at the Harvard Cancer Center.

As NCI senior investigator, Dr. Fine serves on several committees, including the Brain Tumor Program Review Group and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. Dr. Fine also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Neuro-Oncology, and The Oncologist. He has received several distinguished awards, including the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center’s Clinical Investigator Award in 1999, the Emil Frei III Clinical Investigator Award in 1993, and the Brain Tumor Society Research Award in 1992. His research interests include tumor angiogenesis, therapeutic gene transfer, and neural stem cell biology.