Dr. William Chun Hahn MD PHD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
44 Binney St Dana-Farber Cancer I Boston MA, 02115Rating
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About
Dr. Hahn received his MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School in 1994. He then completed clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and medical oncology at DFCI. He conduc ...
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1994
Harvard Medical School 1994
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology- 2000
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Genes involved in senescence and immortalization.
- Human breast cancer cells generated by oncogenic transformation of primary mammary epithelial cells.
- The Saccharomyces cerevisiae WRN homolog Sgs1p participates in telomere maintenance in cells lacking telomerase.
- Telomerase and cancer: where and when?
- Derivation of human tumor cells in vitro without widespread genomic instability.
- Immortalization and transformation of primary human airway epithelial cells by gene transfer.
- Immortalization and transformation of human cells.
- Activation of Notch-1 signaling maintains the neoplastic phenotype in human Ras-transformed cells.
- Prospects for anti-neoplastic therapies based on telomere biology.
- Rules for making human tumor cells.
- Senescence, telomere shortening and telomere maintenance.
- Empty pockets yield more telomere change.
- SV40 early region oncoproteins and human cell transformation.
Awards
- Elected to Association of American Physicians 2013
- Ho-Am Laureate in Medicine 2010
- Gill-Simonian Prize for Mentoring 2008
- Elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation 2005
- Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center 2000
Fellowships
- Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, Medical Oncology
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Oncology Fellowship 1996
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