Angelo Michael Demarzo

Biography

Dr. Angelo De Marzo is a professor of pathology, oncology and urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pathology and prostate cancer. Dr. De Marzo serves as the associate director of Cancer Research Pathology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. De Marzo founded the Tissue Microarray Core at Johns Hopkins, now known as the Oncology Tissue Services. He led it for a decade and now serves as an advisor to the core. Dr. De Marzo's research interests include the molecular pathobiology of prostate cancer, biospecimen banking, biomarker development and tissue microarrays. Dr. De Marzo received his B.A. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology and psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in experimental pathology from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He completed his residency in pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and performed a fellowship at the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Dr. De Marzo joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1998. Dr. De Marzo was Chief Medical Officer at Predictive Biosciences Inc. until 2013, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals, The Prostate and Cancer Prevention Research. He is the recipient of the 2004 Donald S. Coffey Prostate Cancer Foundation Physician/Scientist Award and is a member of various professional organizations, including the American Urological Association and the American Association for Cancer Research.

Research Interest

Tissue microarrays; Biomarker development; Biospecimen banking; MYC, PTEN and prostate cancer; Prostate cancer and inflammation