
Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD
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Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD
Scott A. Armstrong, MD PhD, was appointed Senior Vice President for Drug Discovery and Chief Research Strategy Officer in 2024, leading Dana-Farber's institutional research strategy focusing on our therapeutic discovery efforts. Dr. Armstrong became the President of Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center in 2019 and has been Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2016. He is also the David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and associate chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Boston Children's Hospital.
Dr. Armstrong was previously director of the Center for Epigenetics Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the Weil Cornell Medical College. He earned his medical degree and PhD from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1996. After internship and residency training with the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital, he completed a hematology/oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
The major focus of Dr. Armstrong's career has been on delineating the biology of childhood cancers and the development of new therapeutic approaches for children with cancer. His research program has focused on the mechanisms of leukemia development and the relationship between leukemia and normal hematopoietic stem cells. Dr. Armstrong continues to direct a vigorous research program that focuses on development of the new therapeutics that target chromatin-based mechanisms, and he is actively involved in the development and translation of a number of new small molecule approaches that likely will be tested in clinical trials in the near future.
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Physician
Centers/Programs
Clinical Interests
Hematologic malignancies
Diseases Treated
Board Certification
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2002
Fellowship
- Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Residency
- Boston Combined Residency Program, Boston Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center, Pediatrics
Medical School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Avenue Boston, MA 02215Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
