Lawrence Boise, PhD, is Professor and R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Boise serves as associate director for education and training at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a renowned researcher in the area of multiple myeloma.
Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Boise was at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where he was director of the graduate program and professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Education
Dr. Boise earned his PhD in pharmacology at the Medical College of Virginia and did postgraduate training at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Michigan and University of Chicago.
Titles & Roles
Professor and R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Associate Director for Education and Training
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Research
With longstanding funding by the National Cancer Institute as well as foundations such as the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the TJ Martell Foundation, Dr. Boise's research team studies how therapeutic agents such as arsenicals and proteasome inhibitors work to kill myeloma cells.
Dr. Boise has published extensively in major peer-reviewed journals such as Blood, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Oncogene and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Biochemical Journal and is a member of the NCI study section Cancer Molecular Pathobiology (CAMP). He also serves as a manuscript reviewer for numerous journals, including Nature Cancer Reviews and the Journal of Cell Biology.
