Dolores Hambardzumyan, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor

Dr. Hambardzumyan is an Associate Professor of Oncological Sciences and Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She received her MS in Biochemistry from Yerevan State University in Armenia and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Buniatian Institute of Biochemistry, part of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. She also received an MBA from Emory University Goizueta Business School. Her postgraduate training includes a fellowship with Dr. Eric Holland at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a fellowship at INSERM, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.

She has made significant scientific contributions to various areas of brain tumor biology during her career, including developing genetically engineered mouse models of gliomas and medulloblastomas and understanding the origin and role of brain resident and infiltrating myeloid cells.