Gary Douglas Hammer, MD, PhD

Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor in Departments of Internal Medicine (MEND), Cell & Developmental Biology, and Molecular & Integrative Physiology. He currently serves as Director of Endocrine Oncology Program in Rogel Cancer Center where he holds the Millie Schembechler Professorship in Adrenal Cancer. He is past Director of Center for Organogenesis: Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine. He has brokered the recent renaissance of the current Michigan team of adrenal scientists that includes a who’s who in the study of adrenal disease.

He received the UofM Jerome Conn Award for Outstanding Research in Internal Medicine, the Endocrine Society Edwin B. Astwood Award for Outstanding Research and is a member of ASCI and AAP. He has served in numerous leadership roles at UofM and in the public and private sectors including recent tenure on Board of Scientific Advisors for NCI. He is the editor of four textbooks including Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine (McGraw Hilll), and the upcoming Adrenal Section Editor for Degroot’s Endocrinology (Elsevier). He has served in numerous capacities for the world’s largest endocrine organization, the Endocrine Society including his most recent role as President of the Society (2020-2021). An Advisor to the Congressional H.E.L.P. committee - he co-authored the 21st Century Cancer ALERT (Access to Life-Saving Early detection, Research and Treatment) introduced in Congress in 2009. He has been catalyst for the formation of two international cooperative groups, most recently the A5 (American Australian Asian Adrenal Alliance) that leverages collaboration to secure projects from Pharma and funding agencies across the spectrum of adrenal diseases. He is a cofounder of two companies - MILLENDO and SLING THERAPEUTICS that focus on rare endocrine diseases.

Endocrine oncology, Adrenal cancer, adrenal neoplasia

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Research projects in his own laboratory are aimed at elucidating the mechanisms by which growth factor signaling and transcriptional programs initiate adrenal-specific growth and differentiation with an emphasis on dysregulated adrenocortical stem cells in development and cancer. He is a cofounder of two companies - MILLENDO and SLING THERAPEUTICS that focus on rare endocrine diseases. Collaborative work with colleagues has led to the development of new national and international therapeutic trials with biological-based therapies for adrenal cancer that target the molecular defects in endocrine disease while sparing normal tissue.