Don L. Gibbons MD, PhD

Dr. Gibbons graduated from Harvard University in 1993 (BA degree in Biochemistry), and following completion of a MS degree at The University of Texas Health Science Center – San Antonio in 1996 and a MS degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1999, he obtained his MD and PhD degrees from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2004. Dr. Gibbons did his Clinical Residency at Baylor College of Medicine before joining MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2006 as a Clinical Fellow and later as a Research Fellow and Instructor.

In 2010, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology. Dr. Gibbons is a physician-scientist, specializing in lung cancer medical oncology and with a lab investigating the unique characteristics of tumor microenvironment in lung cancer and mechanisms that drive cancer cells to leave the primary tumor and start new tumors outside the lung.

He was selected for the Physician Scientist Award (2012-2014) and the R. Lee Clark Fellowship (2014-2016), and in 2014, he was awarded the Young Physician-Scientist Award by the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Gibbons is the Director of the Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology Translational Genetic Models Laboratory.