Ben Park's Biography

Ben Park, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Park is from Saginaw, MI and received his Bachelor’s degree from The University of Chicago in 1989. He then completed a dual M.D.-Ph.D. training program at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine graduating in 1995. After completing a residency in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Training at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, he finished a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer genetics in the laboratory of Dr. Bert Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University. In 2002, Dr. Park joined the Faculty in the Department of Oncology at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins within the Breast Cancer Program. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Oncology and Associate Director of the Medical Oncology Fellowship Program. His laboratory research focuses on finding mutated or altered genes that are responsible for breast cancer initiation and progression, as well as genes that are mutated leading to chemo- and hormonal drug resistance. Currently a new area of research is to exploit these discoveries to develop personalized DNA cancer biomarkers to guide individualized treatments for patients with breast cancer.