
Alex Huang
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Speaker Affiliation
Alex Y. C. Huang, M.D., Ph.D., Case Comprehensive Cancer Center/Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Co-Leader, Immune Oncology Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Director, Medical Scientist Training Program, School Medicine
Presentation: Exploiting tumor-immune interactions for new therapies in pediatric and AYA sarcoma
Biography
Dr. Alex Huang received combined B.S./M.S. from University of Chicago, M.D./Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, fulfilled his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins, completed a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins / NCI, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Currently, he is a tenured Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Biomedical Engineering and General Medical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Huang holds the endowed Theresia G. & Stuart F. Kline Family Foundation Chair in Pediatric Oncology and serves as Director of the Center for Pediatric Immunotherapy at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital as well as Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Prior to 2023, Dr. Huang served as the Director of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program at University Hospital’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s for 17 years. Dr. Huang oversees immune-based cancer therapeutics as co-leader of Immune Oncology Scientific Program at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Nationally, he is an elected member of the NCI’s Pediatric and Adolescent Solid Tumor Steering Committee (PASTSC) and a steering member of the Coalition for Pediatric Medical Research. Dr. Huang’s research focuses on exploiting the tumor immune microenvironment to control pediatric and AYA cancers.