William B. Isaacs PhD

Dr. William B. Isaacs is a professor of urology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the William Thomas Gerrard, Mario Anthony Duhon and Jennifer and John Chalsty Professor of Urology. His primary research focus is hereditary prostate cancer.

Dr. Isaacs’ team is working to characterize consistent alterations in the structure and expression of the genome of human prostate cancer cells as a way to identify genes that are critical in the pathways of prostatic carcinogenesis. The goal of this research is to more effectively identify men at high risk for prostate cancer and to identify new prognostic and therapeutic markers that could lead to more effective management of this common disease.

Dr. Isaacs completed his undergraduate degree at Brown University and joined the Johns Hopkins staff as a lab technician for Donald Coffey, then director of the Brady Urological Research Laboratory. He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Science. He left Hopkins to do a post-doctoral program at the University of Iowa, and returned in 1988 to join the faculty of the Department of Urology.