

KidsROBIN
This project is led by Dr. Daphne Haas-Kogan and Dr. Franziska Michor, and is a unique team of clinician scientists and basic scientists from the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) organized to perform transformative research focused on improving outcomes for children diagnosed with cancer. We bring together highly multi-disciplinary expertise across pediatric oncology, cancer genetics, medical physics, machine learning and data science, and radiation oncology.
KidsROBIN Upcoming Events
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February 19, 2025
12:00 PM ET
Causal Targeted Machine Learning for Real-World Evidence Generation in Oncology
Rachael Phillips, PhD
March, 5 2025
12:00 PM ET
TBD
Dan Nguyen, PhD
Our Team

Dapne Haas-Kogan
Contact PI; Project 1 (Diffuse Midline Glioma), Co-Lead
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

Franziska Michor
MPI; Data Science Core, Co-Lead
Charles A. Dana Chair
Human Cancer Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Computational Biology
Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Charles Stiles
DFCI, Advisor
Co-Chair, Department of Cancer Biology,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Professor of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School

Hugo Aerts
AI Core, Co-Lead
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology,
Harvard Medical School and
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
Director, Computational Imaging and Bioinformatics Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Ross Berbeco
Cross Training Core, Co-Lead
Director of Medical Physics Research,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Danielle Bitterman
AI Core, Co-Lead
Instructor in Radiation Oncology,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and
Harvard Medical School

Dipanjan Chowdhury
Project 2, Co-Lead (High‐Risk Neuroblastoma)
Svanberg Family Chair,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Harvard Medical School

Steven DuBois
Project 2, Co-Lead (High‐Risk Neuroblastoma)
Director, Experimental Therapeutics
Senior Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Mariella Filbin
Project 1 (Diffuse Midline Glioma), Co-Lead
Research Co-Director
Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Yue-Houng Hu
Cone Beam
Instructor in Radiation Oncology
Harvard Medical School

Banjamin Kann
AI Core
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

David Konozo
MCT, Co-Lead
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

James Lindsay
Data Science Core
Associate Director and
Chief Software Architect,
Knowledge Systems Group,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Kevin Liu
Science Support
Instructor in Radiation Oncology,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard Medical School

Costanza Lo Cascio
Project 1 (Diffuse Midline Glioma)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

Matthew Milroy
Advisor
Director, Strategy and Business Affairs,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Sabine Mueller
MCT, Co-Lead
Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, University of California-San Francisco
Co-Leader, Pediatric Malignancies Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (PNOC) lead

Jean Nakamura
Cross Training Core, Co-Lead; UCSF Site Lead
Director of Faculty Development
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of California-San Francisco
Sharmistha Pal
Science Support

Guergana Savova
AI Core, Co-Lead
Faculty, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP)
Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Youngho Seo
Data Science Core, Co-Lead
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