Nancy Andrews

Nancy Andrews, M.D, Ph.D., is the vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the Duke University School of Medicine. She is also a professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology. Dr. Andrews received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University, her Ph.D. in biology from MIT, and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston, and her hematology/oncology fellowship at Children's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After she completed her training, Andrews stayed on at Harvard and Children's Hospital Boston, rising through the academic ranks to become the George Richards Minot Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard, senior associate in medicine at the Children's Hospital Boston, and a distinguished physician of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She served as an attending physician in hematology and oncology at Children's Hospital until 2003. She was director of the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program from 1999 to 2003 and dean for basic sciences and graduate studies at Harvard Medical School from 2003 to 2007. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 1993 to 2006.She joined the BWF Board in October 2011.