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Elizabeth Lawlor, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and the Associate Director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute. Her research focuses on understanding the fundamental biology of Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive bone and soft tissue tumor that primarily affects adolescents and young adults. She completed her MD at McMaster University and her clinical training in pediatric hematology-oncology, followed by a PhD in pathology at the University of British Columbia. Lawlor's post-doctoral training was at the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining Seattle Children's in June 2020, she was a faculty member at the University of Michigan, where she directed a Cancer Biology PhD graduate program and contributed to basic and translational studies of pediatric solid tumors. Her lab is funded by grants from NIH/NCI, AACR, and various foundations, focusing on tumor-specific vulnerabilities to develop innovative therapies for childhood cancers while minimizing toxicity to normal tissues.
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