Lorraine Pelosof, M.D., Ph.D.

Lorraine Pelosof grew up in Dallas and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin. She completed her M.D. and Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and then completed her Internal Medicine Residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Following residency, she completed her fellowship training in Medical Oncology at Johns Hopkins where her research focused on DNA promoter methylation in gastrointestinal tumors. After serving as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UT Southwestern, she moved back to Maryland where she was a Medical Officer on the GI oncology team in the Office of Oncologic Diseases at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. After several years at the FDA, Lorraine joined the Investigational Drug Branch in CTEP in 2023.