Mouse Models of Human Cancer

Eric Holland received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985 and M.D. from Stanford University in 1990.  He completed his residency in neurosurgery at UCLA and did postdoctoral work at Stanford and the NIH.  He holds appointments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University.  He is a clinically active neurosurgeon and heads a laboratory at the Sloan-Kettering Institute focused primarily on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of CNS tumors and in modeling these cancers in the mouse. Dr. Holland is the recipient of the Searle Scholars Award, the American Brain Tumor Association Research Award, the Peter Steck Memorial Award, the Bressler Scholars Award and the Seroussi Award.  He has served on the NIH Brain Tumor Process Review Group, is a member of the Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium and is the Principal Investigator of the Brain Tumor SPORE program at MSKCC