Nabeel M. Bardeesy PhD

Nabeel M. Bardeesy, receiving his PhD in Biochemistry from McGill University in Canada, Dr. Bardeesy completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. He currently is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. Dr. Bardeesy specializes in the generation of genetically engineered mouse models to study the biology of pancreatic cancer. His interest in the disease was sparked by a fellow postdoctoral student who had lost two family members to pancreatic cancer. This experience illuminated the urgency for an improved understanding of the disease biology and treatment discoveries.