Martin J Gavin Endowed Chair and Scientific Director
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Ching Lau, M.D., Ph.D. is a physician scientist and is the Martin J. Gavin Endowed Chair and Scientific Director of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He was the former inaugural Co-Leader of the Pediatrics Program of the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Lau graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Chemistry and subsequently received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Cancer Genetics at Dana-Farber Cancer Center. He completed his Pediatrics Residency and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine. His research interests include the molecular biology of pediatric brain and bone tumors and the clinical applications of genomic technologies. He is a strong advocate for team science research in academia and is experienced in leading NCI-funded multi-disciplinary teams of research. He has led multiple NIH funded osteosarcoma projects including the NCI Director’s Challenge, Strategic Partnering to Evaluate Cancer Signatures (SPECS) and Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET). Dr. Lau has published more than 160 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals on cancer genetics and genomics and is a highly sought after speaker who has given more than 120 invited lectures in international and national meetings.
