Appointment
Professor, Medicine
Director, Masonic Cancer Center
John H. Kersey Chair in Cancer Research
Expert Areas
Breast Cancer, Cancer Therapeutics
Research Focus
Director of the Masonic Cancer Center, Douglas Yee is the point person for all cancer research at the University of Minnesota. He also treats patients with breast cancer and conducts research to improve cancer therapies. His research focuses on developing and testing new treatments for cancer. Currently Yee strives to understand the role of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) in stimulating cancer cells to multiply and spread. Approaches he’s testing to thwart IGF’s cancer-promoting activity show great promise for treating cancer.
Sources of Funding
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
American Association for Cancer Research
Pfizer
Department of Defense
