Principal Investigator

Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD is the George P. Canellos, MD, and Jean S. Canellos Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chair of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute.

Dr. Ebert is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and he served recently as President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).  His awards include the Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award from ASCI, the Meyenburg Stiftung Cancer Research Prize, the Till and McCollough Award from the International Society of Experimental Hematopoiesis, the William Dameshek Prize from ASH, and mentoring and teaching awards from Harvard Medical School.  He serves on the medical or scientific advisory boards of the Evans Foundation, Babich Foundation, MDS Foundation, the Aplastic Anemia and MDS Foundation, and the Stem Cell Institute at Cambridge University.

Dr. Ebert received a bachelor's degree from Williams College, a doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in hematology/oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was on the faculty of Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 10 years before returning to Dana-Farber.