Alan D'Andrea, MD

Dr. D’Andrea received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1983. He completed a fellowship in hematology-oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital, Boston. Dr. D’Andrea also completed a research fellowship at the Whitehead Institute before joining the faculty at DFCI in 1990. His laboratory investigates the pathogenesis of Fanconi anemia, a human genetic disease characterized by bone marrow failure and cancer predisposition. 

Dr. D’Andrea is internationally known for his research in the area of DNA damage and DNA repair. He is currently the Fuller-American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Center for DNA Damage and Repair at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. A recipient of numerous academic awards, Dr. D’Andrea is a former Stohlman Scholar of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and serves on their Medical and Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. D’Andrea is a Distinguished Clinical Investigator of the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is also the recipient of the 2012 G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research. Dr. D’Andrea participates in a wide range of clinical trials, largely focused on ovarian, breast, prostate, and bladder cancers. In 2017, he became the Director of the Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.