TimothyFBurnsMDPhD

Summary

• Dr. Burns is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Burns completed his undergraduate work at Cornell University and earned his MD degree and PhD degree in Cell & Molecular Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internal medicine residency and hematology-oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Burns joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC in 2012 and recently joined the faculty at Ohio State in January of 2025. Dr. Burns continues to see lung cancer patients in the clinic however, the majority of his time is spent in the laboratory, where his focus is on characterizing key signaling pathways that are critical for the growth of non-small cell lung cancer and to develop novel targeted therapeutic approaches in EGFR mutant and MET driven mutant non-small cell lung cancer and other oncogene driven lung cancers as well as the development of targeted therapy for brain metastases. To date, Dr. Burns has published 80 cancer related publications and has received funding from the American Lung Association, the V Foundation, the LUNGevity Foundation, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Breath of Hope Foundation and American Cancer Society and most recently the Lung Cancer Research Foundation in addition to his R01 funding from the NCI. In the clinic, Dr. Burns has focused on developing trials to examine novel targeted therapies for oncogene driven lung cancer as well as for brain metastases.