Marsha A Moses
Dr. Marsha A. Moses is the Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital. She is internationally recognized for her significant contributions to our understanding of the biochemical and molecular mechanisms that underlie the regulation of tumor development and progression. Dr. Moses and her laboratory have discovered several inhibitors of these processes that function at both the transcriptional and translational level, some of which are being investigated for potential clinical use. She has complemented this mechanistic research with novel translational studies. Dr. Moses and her team have engineered novel, actively targeted, precision nanomedicines for the treatment of human cancers and their metastases. Named a pioneer in the field of Biomarker Medicine by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, she has established a Biomarker Proteomics Initiative in the Vascular Biology Program and has utilized its resources, including an extensive human biorepository, to discover and validate a number on noninvasive cancer biomarkers that can predict disease status and stage in cancer patients and that are sensitive and specific biomarkers of disease progression and therapeutic efficacy of cancer drugs. Some of these biomarkers are currently being utilized clinically and others are being tested in multiple clinical trials. These therapeutics and diagnostics are included in Dr. Moses’ significant patent portfolio composed of both US and foreign patents.
Dr. Moses’ basic and translational work has been published in such journals as Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, PNAS and Nature Communications, among others. She received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Boston University and completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Langer. Dr. Moses is the recipient of many NIH and foundation grants as well as numerous awards and honors. She has been recognized with both of Harvard Medical School's mentoring awards, the A. Clifford Barger Mentoring Award and the Joseph B. Martin Dean’s Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty. Marsha has received the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Postdoc Association of Boston Children’s Hospital and has also received their Award forExceptional Mentorship. Dr. Moses has also received the Honorary Member Mentoring Award from the Association of Women Surgeons of the American College of Surgeons. She was the 2021 awardee of the America Association for Cancer Research Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship.
Dr. Moses has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.