Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD

Ramon E. Parsons, MD, PhD, is Director of the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, a NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also Dean for Cancer Research, the Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Research, and Chair of the Department of Oncological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

In 2017, Dr. Parsons was appointed Director of the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, known then as The Tisch Cancer Institute, after serving as Deputy Director and Co-Leader of the Cancer Mechanisms program. 

Prior to joining the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SInai in 2013, Dr. Parsons was on the faculty of the departments of Pathology and Medicine at Columbia University. He was named Assistant Professor in 1995 and later became the Avon Foundation Chair for Breast Cancer Research in 2002. He was named Professor in 2007 and Leader of its Breast Cancer Program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2005.  

Dr. Parsons is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American College of Physicians. He served as Chair of the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conferences Committee from 2011-2017.

Dr. Parsons maintains an active laboratory and has received multiple awards for his research, including the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research. He is internationally recognized as an expert in the fields of cancer genetics and signal transduction with an emphasis on tumor suppressor genes including PTEN.