Dr. Christopher C. Benz, MD is a clinical oncologist and translational researcher specializing in breast cancer. He provides comprehensive care to patients at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, CA. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Benz's laboratory research focuses on identifying molecular strategies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, while also participating in major research efforts to make new therapies available more quickly.
As a founding faculty member of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Dr. Benz conducts groundbreaking laboratory research on breast cancer and has co-directed one of the National Cancer Institute's centers for genome analysis. His contributions to the completion of the PanCancer Atlas project, which molecularly characterized over 10,000 human tumors representing 33 types of cancer, are expected to pave the way for more effective and personalized cancer therapies. Dr. Benz earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed his residency in internal medicine at Vancouver General Hospital, followed by a fellowship in oncology at Yale University.
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