Jeffrey A. Brown and Barbara Horovitz Brown Associate Professor of Translational Medicine

Overview

Dr. Azzoli is a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of lung cancer, mesothelioma and thymoma (Thoracic Oncologist).  He has served as faculty at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston, MA.  In 2018, he became the Director of Thoracic Oncology at the Lifespan Cancer Institute, in Providence, RI.  Dr. Azzoli conducts phase 1b-2 clinical trials of new drugs for patients with lung cancer, with special interest in drugs which may overcome de novo and acquired resistance to anti-PD1 immune checkpoint blockade.  He is also working to develop blood tests which may detect T-cell mediated anti-cancer immune activity in his patients.

 

E-mail:  cazzoli@lifespan.org

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