My Locations
Siteman Cancer Center at MidAmerica Plaza in South County
Expertise & Training
Charles Kaufman, MD, PhD
6 minsCharles Kaufman, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist from the Siteman Cancer Center, discusses how great it is to meet patients for the first time when they are in a tough situation and be able to tell them that they have multiple treatment options with a very realistic probability of success.
Clinical Expertise
Melanoma, skin cancers
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, WashU Medicine
Board Certification
- 2008: American Board of Internal Medicine
- 2010: American Board of Internal Medicine - Medical Oncology
Training
- 2005 - 2007: Resident, Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- 2007 - 2011: Fellow, Hematology/Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Cancer Center, Boston, MA
- 2008 - 2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Education
- 2003: PhD, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 2005: MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Research & Selected Publications
Research Interest
My goal as a physician-scientist is to interface between medicine and basic science to confront challenging fundamental questions in cancer biology. In particular, I study the molecular regulation of cancer initiation – the events that occur at the very start of tumor formation – during which cells readopt stem cell-like characteristics.
Research Publications