Nancy E. Davidson, MD, Member
BCRF Executive Board of Scientific Advisors
Nancy Davidson received her MD in 1979 from Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and completed internal medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins. She is President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for the 2007/08 year.
Dr. Davidson was a Medical Staff Fellow and guest worker at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda from 1982-86 where she developed a major interest in the breast cancer field. She joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1986 as an Assistant Professor in Oncology.
Today, Dr. Davidson is a Professor of Oncology and holds the Breast Cancer Research Chair in Oncology. Dr. Davidson also serves as Director of the Breast Cancer Research Program.
Trained as a medical oncologist and scientist, Dr. Davidson has devoted her career to breast cancer research, in both the clinical and laboratory setting. Her clinical research has focused on the value of combination therapy with chemotherapy and hormonal therapy for young women with breast cancer. One of her major laboratory interests has been the definition of the biochemical pathways by which breast cancer cells die, in the hope that new targets for anti-breast cancer therapy can be identified as well as epigenetic regulation of gene expression.
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