David Guy Kirsch MD, PhD

David G. Kirsch, MD, Ph.D., was recently promoted to Professor of Radiation Oncology and Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. Kirsch received his MD and Ph.D. degrees in 2000 from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He received his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Then, Kirsch completed an internship in internal medicine at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and residency training in radiation oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, which he completed in 2005. He spent four years as a post-doctoral fellow at MIT before being recruited to Duke in 2007.

Kirsch's clinical interests revolve around the multi-modality care of patients with bone and soft-tissue sarcomas. His laboratory interests include utilizing mouse models of cancer to study cancer and radiation biology in order to develop new cancer therapies in the pre-clinical setting.