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Vassiliki A Boussiotis, MD,PhD

Professor
Hematologic Malignancies
Contact Information
Office:   DA-0517
Phone:   617-667-8563
Fax:   617-735-2480
Email:   vboussio@bidmc.harvard.edu
Address:    330 Brookline Ave; DA-0517
 Boston, MA 02215
Advanced Degree And Training
Year Institution Area or Rank
1986 University of Athens School of Medicine Medicine (MD PhD)
1983 University of Athens School of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program Resident
1986 University of Athens School of Medicine Hematology Fellowship Program Clinical Fellow
1991 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Fellowship in Immunology Research Fellow
1993 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Instructor
1997 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Assistant Professor
2002 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program Associate Professor
2002 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Associate Professor
2005 Massachusetts General Hospital Oncology and BMT Fellowship Program Associate Professor
2008 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
1 Cancer      
Major Research Theme
1. Molecular mechanisms of T cell tolerance.
2. The role of p27kip1 in T helper and cytolytic responses.
3. Regulation of T cell immune responses by Rap1.
4. PI3K and its downstream pathways as therapeutic targets for T-ALL.
5. Reconstitution of T cell immunity after unrelated cord blood transplantation in patients with hematologic malignancies.

External Recognition
Invited presentations and committee assignments 2007-2008 academic year

2nd International Symposium on Immune Surveillance, Tokyo, Japan
Dana-Farber/HCC Program in Cancer Immunology
Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon Medical School, Portugal
Hematology-Oncology Grant Rounds, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Transfusion Medicine Grant Rounds, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Annual Meeting of the Hellenic Society of Hematology
13th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and Molecular Medicine

Committee assignments

Regular member, Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Study Section, NCI/NIH
Ad hoc member, Scientific Committee, National Science Foundation
Scientific Committee, European Commission Grants
Scientific Committee, Dutch Cancer Society Foundation
Scientific Committee, UK Cancer Research Funding


Major Collaborative Activities
Gordon J. Freeman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Anjana Rao, Center for Blood Research
Arlene H. Sharpe, Harvard Medical School
Karen Ballen, Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph Antin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jerome Ritz, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Investigator's Lab Web Site
Research Lab URL     None listed
Harvard Catalyst Site:     Boussiotis Harvard Catalyst Web Site