Catherine Wu, MD

Dr. Catherine J. Wu is an Associate Professor in Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.  She received her M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed her clinical training in Internal Medicine and Hematology-Oncology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA.  She joined the staff at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2000.  At DFCI, she has initiated an integrated program of research and clinical activities that focuses on dissecting the underlying mechanisms of pathobiology of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) as a means to more rationally generate effective therapies, including immune-based treatments, for this common adult leukemia. Through large-scale genome analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, her laboratory has discovered key mutated genes and pathways involved in CLL. Ongoing studies in her laboratory focus on systematically analyzing tumor genotype – phenotype relationships, understanding CLL tumor heterogeneity and clonal evolution; and mechanistically dissecting the impact of novel CLL driver genes.