Robert B. Clarke

Robert Clarke is a Professor of oncology and Professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. He is Interim Director of the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization and an Interim Associate Vice President of Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Clarke also is Codirector of the Division of Molecular Endocrinology, Nutrition and Obesity, and Coleader of the Breast Cancer Program at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University. He earned the D.Sc. degree in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the Queen’s University of Belfast, UK, and completed his postdoctoral training at the Medical Breast Section of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, as a Breast Cancer Study Group Fellow. Dr. Clarke joined the Faculty at Georgetown University in 1988. As an internationally recognized leader in breast cancer research, Dr. Clarke studies how hormones (endogenous and exogenous) and related factors affect breast cancer. Focusing initially on the interactions of hormones and anticancer drugs, his work expanded into studies of the underlying the cellular and molecular mechanisms that explain how breast cancers become resistant to hormone and cytotoxic therapies.

Biography Updated on 27 June 2007

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