David Miyamoto's Biography

David Miyamoto, Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

David Miyamoto, MD, PhD is Instructor in Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a physician scientist in the MGH Circulating Tumor Cell Center directed by Dr. Daniel Haber. He earned his AB in Chemistry from Harvard College, MD from Harvard Medical School, and PhD in Cell Biology from Harvard University. He is a board-certified radiation oncologist who sees patients in the Bertucci Center for Genitourinary Cancers at the MGH Cancer Center. His research focuses on developing sensitive microfluidic platforms for the detection and molecular analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in prostate cancer, and the development of novel biomarkers to guide prostate cancer therapy. His research has been supported by the Department of Defense, National Cancer Institute, and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.