Dr. Charles Sawyers is currently Professor of Medicine, Division of
Hematology/Oncology at UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Prostate
Cancer Program area at the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Sawyers received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University
and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the UCSF Medical Center,
and a clinical fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the UCLA School of
Medicine. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Molecular
Biology at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Sawyers is board certified
in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, and Hematology.
Dr. Sawyers has published over 30 scientific and medical papers in such
journals as the New England Journal of Medicine and Cell. He has
won numerous honors and awards, including the Franklin D. Murphy Prize,
Stohlman Scholar of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and he was recently
appointed the Peter Bing Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine.
Dr. Sawyers research interests include signal transduction and cell
growth in such diseases as leukemia and prostate cancer.
