Raghu Kalluri

Biography

Kalluri was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Kansas Medical Center and his M.D. degree from Brown University Medical School. Kalluri was a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and studied immunology and organ fibrosis. In 1997, he moved to Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and as a faculty based in the Department of Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2006, Kalluri was appointed the Chief of the Division of Matrix Biology and was promoted to Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds an appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Kalluri was recruited to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2012 as the Chairman of the Cancer Biology Department and as the Director of the Metastasis Research Center. His laboratory is broadly interested in the study of cell and tissue microenvironment and its impact on cancer progression and tissue 

Research Interest

Molecular pharmacology