Isaac Chan, M.D., Ph.D.

Biography

Isaac Chan, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in immunotherapy, breast cancer, and metastatic cancer.

Dr. Chan earned both his doctoral degree in genetics and molecular signaling and his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston University and received advanced training through a medical oncology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, he joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2020.

Dr. Chan’s research involves understanding how to treat and prevent metastatic disease by studying the processes by which cancer cells spread. He has delivered numerous invited talks and published countless academic articles on this subject.

Additionally, he has written several op-ed pieces about patient-centered care, including for The Washington Post, and has also worked closely with patient advocates in breast cancer and the organization Guiding Researchers and Advocates to Scientific Partnerships (GRASP). Dr. Chan is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.

In 2019, he earned the Conquer Cancer Young Investigator Award in Breast Cancer from the American Society of Clinical Oncology Foundation.