Seminar: Oncology Series

Join us for a presentation by Trever G. Bivona, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco.

Bivona is a cell and molecular biologist and a board-certified medical oncologist. He received his MD and PhD degrees from NYU School of Medicine, followed by internal medicine training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, and medical oncology and postdoctoral research training at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Bivona then joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco where he is currently an associate professor and directs a basic and translational research program investigating oncogene signaling pathways and the molecular basis of response and resistance to cancer therapeutics. He received a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Bivona is currently principal investigator of the Bay Area NIH/NCI Drug Resistance and Sensitivity Center.