Raanan Berger

Raanan Berger, M.D, Ph.D., is the Director of the Sheba Medical Center cancer center, a senior Oncologist and Radiotherapist, and the head of the clinical research facility at the Institute of Oncology and Radiotherapy. Dr. Berger is leading the genitourinary oncology program, as well as running a basic and translational research lab studying molecular mechanisms in prostate and breast tumorigenesis.

Dr. Berger holds an MD and Ph.D. degree from the Sackler Medical School at Tel Aviv University. He completed his clinical training in Medical Oncology and Radiotherapy at Sheba Medical Center and his postdoctoral fellowship at Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. During that time, Dr. Berger combined clinical work treating prostate cancer patients with Dr. Philip Kantoff with basic research in Dr. William C. Hahn’s lab. Dr. Berger has developed a novel prostate cancer model derived from primary human prostate epithelial cells with defined genetic elements. He is the co-author of 20 peer-reviewed scientific articles.