Alan S. Wayne, M.D.
Pediatric Oncology Branch
Head, Hematologic Diseases Section
Senior Clinician
National Cancer Institute
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 10-CRC,
Room 1W-3750
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: 301-496-4256
Fax: 301-451-7010
waynea@mail.nih.gov
Dr. Wayne received his M.D. from Northwestern University and carried out his residency and fellowship training at Children's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Past positions have included associate director of the blood bank at Boston Children's, director of transfusion medicine in the Division of Allergy/Immunology/Bone Marrow Transplantation at the University of South Florida/All Children's Hospital, and director of pediatric bone marrow transplantation at the University of Miami. In July 1999, Dr. Wayne joined the NCI as the clinical director of the Pediatric Oncology Branch and the head of the Hematologic Diseases Section. In addition, Dr. Wayne directs the Fellowship Training Program in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, which is a joint program with Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Wayne is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-Board of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Dr. Wayne's Clinical Trial(s):
NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is currently conducting the following trial(s) for patients with hematologic/blood cancer or pediatric cancer. Click on the trial(s) below for additional details, including a summary of primary eligibility, study outline, and information on how to contact the study team directly.
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Clinical Trials Research
The primary mission of the clinical research program of the Hematologic Diseases Section is to develop new treatment strategies for hematologic malignancies, the most frequent cancer type in pediatrics. Although cure rates are excellent for many subtypes of childhood leukemia and lymphoma, new approaches are needed to overcome resistance to standard therapies and to decrease treatment-associated side-effects.
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