Scott E. Kern, M.D.

Dr. Scott E. Kern is a molecular biologist who has focused his research interests on the genetic changes which cause pancreatic cancer and account for its behavior. He has appointments in the clinical departments of Oncology and Pathology of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, as well as the basic science programs in Human Genetics and in Cellular & Molecular Medicine. Having trained originally in Ann Arbor, he boasts of occasionally having seen Michigan beat a west coast team. His postdoctoral studies at Hopkins concerned p53, the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer, and he discovered the specific DNA-binding function which is inhibited by the mutations in tumors.

Dr. Kern can be contacted at the following address:

Departments of Oncology and Pathology
Bunting Blaustein Cancer Research Building 451
1650 Orleans Street
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21231

Phone: 410-614-3314
Fax: 410-614-9705
E-mail: sk@jhmi.edu