Lung Cancer Team

Samir Hanash, M.D., Ph.D., Lung Team Leader

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Canary Lung Team

Dr. Hanash is a Full Member of the faculty and the Program Head for the Molecular Diagnostics Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in Seattle. Dr. Hanash’s interests and expertise focus on the development and application of integrated approaches to the molecular profiling of cancer, with particular emphasis on proteomics. He has been a program principal investigator (PI) for multi-investigator projects funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), PI for an NCI Director’s Challenge program that focuses on molecular profiling of lung, colon and ovarian cancer, and PI of an NCI-funded Cancer Biomarker Development program that focuses on the application of proteomics to the discovery of protein markers for the early diagnosis of lung and GI cancers. Dr. Hanash has organized and participated in several workshops sponsored by the NCI related to cancer diagnostics and molecular profiling. Dr. Hanash earned his M.D. from the American University of Beirut and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. See his bio for more information about Dr. Hanash.