Kastan received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MD and PhD from
Washington University School of Medicine in 1984. He did a residency in pediatrics at
Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 2004, he became director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, where he worked until moving to Duke to lead the
Duke Cancer Institute in 2011. He was the editor-in-chief of
Molecular Cancer Research from 2002 to 2012.
Awards • 1995 Elected to the
American Society for Clinical Investigation • 1999 Stohlman Award,
Leukemia Society of America • 2003 Elected member,
Association of American Physicians • 2014 Elected fellow,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences • 2014 Elected fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science • 2016 Elected to the
National Academy of Sciences • 2017 Elected fellow of the
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