Alain Charest's Biography

Alain Charest, Associate Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cancer Research Institute, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Alain Charest, M.Sc., Ph.D. is a member of the Cancer Research Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Dr. Charest received his post-graduate degrees at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and pursued post-doctoral studies at MIT. The focus of the Charest laboratory is on leveraging clinically relevant genetically engineered mouse models of primary malignant brain cancer to study central aspects of gliomagenesis and molecular responses to therapeutic interventions. Recent work from the Charest lab involves studies on mechanisms of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in EGFR-driven models of Glioblastoma Multiforme.