Dr. Foss is a world traveler, community gardener and foodie.
Dr. Francine Foss, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Medical Oncology at the Yale Cancer Center, is an internationally recognized clinician and clinical researcher with expertise in adult lymphomas and in stem cell transplantation. She has developed and tested therapies that have been used to treat thousands of cancer patients, and her research has substantially impacted the field of stem cell research, benefiting patients at Yale and around the world. In her previous position at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston, she designed, initiated and directed multi-center national clinical trials that led to FDA approval of several novel therapies for lymphomas.
Dr. Foss is a world expert in T-cell lymphomas. She has pioneered several novel therapies for T-cell lymphomas and has been a leader in many national studies. She developed and initiated the first national registry for T-cell lymphomas in the United States and is a founder and co-chairman of the T-Cell Forum, the preeminent international T-cell lymphoma research meeting. She is a co-founder of the United States Cutaneous Lymphoma Consortium and currently serves as its President. In addition, Dr. Foss was one of the early developers and hosts of the Yale Cancer Answers, a weekly program on Connecticut National Public Radio.