Brian Shuch MD

Brian Shuch, MD, is the Director of the Kidney Cancer Program and the Alvin & Carrie Meinhardt Endowed Chair in Kidney Cancer Research. He directs UCLA's Multidisciplinary VHL Program and the Society of Urologic Oncology Fellowship Program. He completed medical school at NYU, a six-year urology residency at UCLA, and a three-year Urologic Oncology Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. He is an accomplished surgeon and clinical/translational researcher.

He serves in leadership positions, including the NCI Renal Task Force, SWOG, the Kidney Cancer Association, and the Society of Urologic Oncology. He is recognized as an expert in kidney cancer genetic syndromes and runs a translational research program with ~200 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, NEJM, Lancet, Lancet Oncology, PNAS, JCO, and CCR. He has received funding from the NCI/NIH, DOD, KureIt, KCA, V Foundation, Driven to Cure, and the Phase One Foundation. Dr. Shuch was at Yale from 2013 to 2018 as an Associate Professor of Urology.