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Adam D. Durbin, MD, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
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Adam D. Durbin, MD, PhD
Molecular Oncology
MS 353, Room D5062F
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Quick Facts
Education
BSc (Biology) - York University, Toronto, ON PhD (Medical Biophysics) - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON MD - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Internship and Residency (General Pediatrics) - Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA Clinical/Postdoctoral Fellowship (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology) - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Honors & Awards
- 2023 Hyundai Hope on Wheels Scholar
- 2022 V Foundation Scholar
- 2022 American Society for Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award
- 2020 William H. Guy Forbeck Fellow
- 2020-2025 NIH/NCI Clinical Scientist Career Development Award (K08)
- 2019 CureSearch Young Investigator Award in Pediatric Oncology Drug Development
- 2018 Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Fellow
- 2018 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Young Investigator Award
- 2018 Rally Foundation Young Investigator Award
- 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award
- 2017 AACR Loxo-Oncology Scholar-In Training Award
- 2009 Outstanding Trainee Award, Sickkids Research Institute
- 2004-2010 Canadian Institutes of Health Research M.D./Ph.D. Fellowship
Research Interests
- Epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of high-risk pediatric cancers, including neuroblastoma and rhabdomyosarcoma
- Chemical biology and functional genomic perturbation of cancer systems biology
- Drug discovery for pediatric high-risk tumors
- Pathogenesis and modeling of rare tumors
