Kevin Shannon, MD

University of California San Francisco – Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Roma and Marvin Auerback Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Molecular Oncology

Dr. Shannon is a physician-scientist whose research program focuses on normal and leukemic hematopoiesis with an emphasis on genetic mechanisms underlying leukemia development, aberrant RAS signaling, mouse cancer modeling, molecular therapeutics and drug resistance. His laboratory has discovered inherited and somatic mutations that cause human developmental disorders and contribute to leukemia. He led the Hematopoietic Malignancies Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center from 2002-2012, was Director of the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) from 2006-2012, and is currently the Director of the UCSF Physician Scientist Scholar Program. Dr. Shannon was a member of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors from 2012-21. He recently served on the Pediatric Cancer Working Group for the NCI Cancer Biden Moonshot Initiative and as Co-Chair of the NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative Working Group.

Dr. Shannon received his MD from Cornell University, completed residency training in pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and completed a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at UCSF. He served 10 years in the US Navy Medical Corps before joining the full-time UCSF faculty in 1992.