William Nelson
MD, PhD
Director, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
👥Biography 个人简介
William Nelson directs the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and is a precision oncology leader with foundational contributions to understanding epigenetic alterations in prostate cancer. He identified GSTP1 hypermethylation as the most common cancer-specific somatic alteration in prostate cancer, enabling biomarker development. He served on the National Cancer Advisory Board and has been a leading voice in precision oncology research infrastructure. His leadership at Johns Hopkins has fostered translational research programs spanning genomics to clinical implementation.
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Last updated: 2026-04-01 | All information from publicly available academic sources
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