Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr.

Who is Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr.?

Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. is an American physician and cancer researcher. He received an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.D. from Duke University, and an M.Sc. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his medical residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He then joined the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health as a post-doctoral fellow, becoming Chief of the Environmental Epidemiology Branch in 1975, Director of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program in 1979, and founding Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in 1995. He stepped down from this position in 2012 to become a Senior Investigator and Advisor to the National Cancer Institute.

One of Dr. Fraumeni's research accomplishments was the identification in 1969 with Dr. Frederick Pei Li of four families with an increased susceptibility to multiple forms of cancer in children and young adults.