Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar Ramaswamy is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Tucker Gosnell Investigator and an assistant professor at the Center for Cancer Research and the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate member at the Broad Institute. His research interests focus on metastasis, the primary cause of death in cancer patients. The cellular and molecular bases for metastasis are poorly understood and his laboratory is using multidisciplinary tools to understand this complex biological process. These include molecular profiling to generate genome-wide views of human cancer; emerging methods in stem cell biology and tissue engineering to experimentally model aspects of the metastatic process in vitro and in vivo; various cell imaging tools to probe identified genes and pathways; and computational biology and statistics to integrate this information about the metastatic phenotype in silico. His major goal is to identify the molecular interactions that sustain advanced human tumors in order to guide the development and clinical use of newer-generation cancer diagnostics and drugs.

Learn more about research in the Ramaswamy laboratory here.