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Suzanne George, MD

Clinical Research Director, Sarcoma Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Suzanne George, MD, is the clinical research director at the Sarcoma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, MA. She received her MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School after earning a degree in chemistry from Harvard College. She completed her internal medicine training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Tufts-New England Medical Center (currently known as Tufts Medical Center) in Boston, followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center.

Dr George has devoted her career to clinical trials in sarcomas, with a focus on leiomyosarcoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. She has explored multiple novel therapeutics in this area and has been directly involved with the development of several compounds that have ultimately gained global regulatory approval as new standards of care in this field.

In addition to an established clinical investigator in this field, Dr George is the vice-chair of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, a large National Cancer Institute–funded oncology clinical trials research base that is a part of the National Clinical Trials Network.