HONOREES PROFILE
Dr. Nam Hoang Dang, MD, Ph.D.
As Chief of Hematological Malignancies for Nevada Cancer Institute, Dr. Dang is focused on developing novel therapies that derive from in-depth knowledge of basic biological processes, particularly those involving apoptosis, immune activation, cellular signal transduction, and cell cycleregulation. He is particularly interested in designing novel therapies that take knowledge from the lab bench to the bedside for hematologic malignancies, which include lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma.
Originally from Vietnam, Dr. Dang came to the US as a refugee with his entire family as a 12-year-old boy in 1975. After spending time in refugee camps off the coast of California, he and his family moved to Dallas, Texas with the support of a church located in Highland Park. Instilled with a passion for learning from his parents, Dang began to learn English by listening to sports radio talk shows in Dallas. He graduated as valedictorian from Highland Park High School and went to Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, where he graduated with top honors, earning his B.A. (magna cum laude), M.D. (magna cum laude), and Ph.D. degrees.
He continued his medical education in the Harvard system with residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital, and fellowship training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, becoming board-certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Among the several prestigious awards and honors he has garnered include the National Arthritis Foundation Medical Student Award, the Friends Fellowship of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the V Foundation Scholar Award, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Physicians, and the MD Anderson Cancer Center Physician-Scientist Award.