KELLY HUNT
Estados Unidos
Dr. Hunt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Breast Surgical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She holds the Olla Stribling Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research. She has joint appointments as a Professor in Experimental Radiation Oncology and Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology.
Dr. Hunt’s work focuses on finding more effective surgical procedures and therapeutics for patients with breast cancer and soft tissue sarcomas. Her translational research investigations focus on developing novel treatment strategies involving agents that
target cell cycle regulation. One of the lab’s significant projects, was identification of low molecular weight cyclin E as an important prognostic marker of breast cancer.
Ongoing studies are investigating the underlying mechanisms of resistance to standard of care therapeutics and metastasis for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. The team has also identified a novel combination treatment strategy using cell cycle checkpoint defects in soft tissue sarcoma. Dr. Hunt has to her credit more than 650 peer- reviewed publications, 56 book chapters and six books. As an international leader in breast cancer research, she has directed major clinical trials whose results have changed the standard of treatment for many patients with breast cancer.
Dr. Hunt served as the director of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Cancer Research Program, and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ACS Cancer Surgery Standards Program. She is the President of the American Radium Society, President of the Society of Surgical Oncology and Recorder of the American Surgical Association.
Her contributions to the field of oncology and translational research have been recognized through numerous awards and accolades, including: Faculty Achievement Award in Clinical Research from MD Anderson, a Texas Business Women’s Award and induction into the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame,
America‘s Top Doctors and the John Mendelsohn Award for Faculty Leadership. She was elected as a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Estados Unidos
Dr. Hunt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Breast Surgical Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She holds the Olla Stribling Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research. She has joint appointments as a Professor in Experimental Radiation Oncology and Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology.
Dr. Hunt’s work focuses on finding more effective surgical procedures and therapeutics for patients with breast cancer and soft tissue sarcomas. Her translational research investigations focus on developing novel treatment strategies involving agents that
target cell cycle regulation. One of the lab’s significant projects, was identification of low molecular weight cyclin E as an important prognostic marker of breast cancer.
Ongoing studies are investigating the underlying mechanisms of resistance to standard of care therapeutics and metastasis for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. The team has also identified a novel combination treatment strategy using cell cycle checkpoint defects in soft tissue sarcoma. Dr. Hunt has to her credit more than 650 peer- reviewed publications, 56 book chapters and six books. As an international leader in breast cancer research, she has directed major clinical trials whose results have changed the standard of treatment for many patients with breast cancer.
Dr. Hunt served as the director of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Cancer Research Program, and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ACS Cancer Surgery Standards Program. She is the President of the American Radium Society, President of the Society of Surgical Oncology and Recorder of the American Surgical Association.
Her contributions to the field of oncology and translational research have been recognized through numerous awards and accolades, including: Faculty Achievement Award in Clinical Research from MD Anderson, a Texas Business Women’s Award and induction into the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame,
America‘s Top Doctors and the John Mendelsohn Award for Faculty Leadership. She was elected as a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).