ISSN: 2578-6512
Professor of Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
United States of America
Tel: 215-615-1696
Dr. Brian J. Czerniecki is the Mason Chairman of the Department of Breast Oncology at the H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on dendritic cell biology and interactions with T cells. He has developed dendritic cell vaccines for the treatment of breast cancer and is involved with several clinical trials for treating patients with early breast cancer with dendritic cell vaccines. The overall goal is develop vaccines for the prevention of breast cancer and other solid tumors. He is identifying molecular targets in early breast cancer that can be used for prevention of invasion and metastasis. Dr. Czerniecki received his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Maine and MD, PhD from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson and Rutgers University. He completed his general surgical residency at The Ohio State University and was Surgical Oncology Fellow at the NCI with Dr. Steven Rosenberg prior to his position at the University of Pennsylvania. He rose to full Professor of Surgery at Penn. He has authored over 150 publications and chapters.
