Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) for Genomic Medicine, and the UConn School of Medicine have made their first joint appointment: pediatric oncologist and cancer researcher Dr. Ching C. Lau.
Lau will serve as the medical director of hematology-oncology at Connecticut Children’s; as professor at JAX, where he will specialize in pediatric brain and bone tumor research; and as head of the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at the UConn School of Medicine. His clinical interests include neuro-oncology, solid tumors and osteosarcoma.
Lau comes to Connecticut from Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where he was head of the Cancer Genomics Program and Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratory, and was also co-director of the Pediatrics Program at the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine.
