Rosandra Natasha Reich Kaplan MD

Dr. Rosandra Kaplan received her medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School. She completed her pediatric residency training at Harvard Children's Hospital, Boston, and Boston Medical Center. Following residency, Dr. Kaplan pursued a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she served as Chief Fellow.

Kaplan did her postdoctoral research work in the laboratory of Dr. David Lyden. She was appointed Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2006. In the fall of 2010, she joined the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the NCI. She is a clinician and physician scientist with active translational and clinical research interests focused on the mechanism of cancer spread.

Dr. Kaplan has been the recipient of several grants including the Charles, Lillian, and Betty Neuwirth Clinical Scholar in Pediatric Oncology, Doris Duke Charitable Career Development Award, a co-investigator in the Komen Foundation Investigator-Initiated Award, Hope Street Kids grant award, ASCO young investigator award, and the Association for Research of Childhood Cancer.