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Brian Rubin, M.D.

LRG Research Team, Cleveland Clinic

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Dr. Brian Rubin

The Cleveland Clinic

 

 

Brian Rubin graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Cell Biology in 1983. He spent the next 3 years in the Peace Corps working for the WHO malaria control program in Thailand. He moved on to work as a research technician at Amgen from 1986‐1987. He attended the MD/PhD program at Cornell University Medical College from 1987‐1995. Dr. Rubin was a resident and fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital from 1995‐2000 where he did focused fellowships in soft tissue pathology with Chris Fletcher and a post‐doc in the lab of Jonathan Fletcher working on genomics of sarcomas including GIST. In 2000 he moved to the University of Washington where he spent five and 1/2 years as the Director of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology. Dr. Rubin is now the director of Soft Tissue Pathology at Cleveland Clinic. He currently shares appointments at Cleveland Clinic in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Lerner Research Institute and in the Department of Pathology. Dr. Rubin’s lab is focused on genomics and proteomics of sarcomas, targeted therapies of sarcomas and developing mouse models of sarcomas.