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Judy Ellen Garber is the director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Garber previously served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research.[1]
Garber's research focuses on DNA damage in breast cancer.[1]
Garber attended Yale School of Medicine, receiving her MD/MPH in 1981. She did her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hematology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.[2]
Garber has been the president of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at Dana-Farber since 2010.[1] In 2011–2012, Garber served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research. She is a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board[3] and a co-scientific director of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.[4]