Junne Kamihara

Junne Kamihara is a Medical Educator at Harvard Medical School and an Attending Physician at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. She serves as Director of Medical Therapies at the Ocular Oncology Center.

• Education: MD from Harvard Medical School (2008), PhD in Genetics from MIT (2014), Pediatric Residency at Boston Combined Residency Program (2011), Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Boston Children's/Dana-Farber (2014).

Her research focuses on pediatric cancer predisposition syndromes, including Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, DICER1-related disorders, and PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome. She investigates genetic mutations linked to childhood cancers and develops surveillance protocols for at-risk populations.

Recent publications highlight her work in genomic analysis of tumor predisposition, with key contributions to understanding DICER1 mutations in sarcomas, FGFR1-related neuroendocrine tumors, and multi-omic models of cancer genomics. Articles span journals like Clinical Cancer Research, Nature Communications, and Pediatric Blood & Cancer.