Matthew Gianferante, MD
Research Fellow
National Cancer Institute
9609 Medical Center Drive
Bethesda,
MD
USA
20892
Biographical Sketch: Matthew Gianferante, M.D., joined the Genetic Epidemiology Branch (GEB) as a postdoctoral clinical fellow. Dr. Gianferante obtained his M.D. at the Uniformed Service University in 2011 and completed his pediatric residency at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children in 2014. Dr. Gianferante is a Pediatric Hematology Oncology Clinical Fellow at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and an officer in the United States Public Health Service. He joins the division for the final two years of his clinical fellowship to study pediatric cancer genetic etiology. Dr. Gianferante will be working with Drs. Lisa Mirabello and Sharon Savage to investigate the disease-associated mutations in nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome families and pediatric medulloblastoma trios using whole-exome sequencing data.
Papers:
PATTERNS OF CARE IN TREATING CHILDHOOD NEUROBLASTOMA: EVIDENCE FROM A POPULATION LEVEL STUDY IN THE UNITED STATES