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Stuart B. Padnos Professor of Breast Cancer Research
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
About
Dr. Daniel F. Hayes is the Stuart B. Padnos Professor of Breast Cancer Research.at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.
Dr. Hayes received undergraduate, master’s and medical degrees from Indiana University, followed by a residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School/Health Science Center/Parkland Memorial Hospital and a fellowship in medical oncology at Harvard’s Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He has led the breast cancer programs at DFCI (1991-1996), Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Center (1996-2001), and the University of Michigan from 2001-2016.
Dr. Hayes’ research interests are in the field of experimental therapeutics and cancer biomarkers, especially in breast cancer. His work has been particularly focused on development and validation of cancer biomarker tests, such as HER-2, CA15-3, circulating tumor cells and pharmacogenomic markers. He has been instrumental in establishing international guidelines for the use of tumor biomarker tests, including criteria for their clinical utility.
He has served as chair of the SWOG Breast Cancer Translational Medicine Committee, and he was an inaugural member and chaired the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Tumor Marker Guidelines Committee. He has been instrumental in the joint ad hoc committees between ASCO and the College of American Pathologists. Dr. Hayes served on the ASCO Board of Directors as well as a 3-year term as President of ASCO from 2016-2018. He is a Fellow of ASCO, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a past Komen Scholar, an emeritus of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and a member of the Association of American Physicians and of the American Clinical and Climatologic Association. He has been the recipient of the ASCO Gianni Bonadonna Award in breast cancer (2007), the ASCO Allen Lichter Visionary Leadership Award (2021) and the Susan G. Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Clinical Research (2023). He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indiana University Medical School (2024) and from the Indiana University School of Arts and Sciences (2025).
Education
MD, Indiana University
MS, Biochemistry, Indiana University
BS, Biology, Indiana University
Training
Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School/Parkland Affiliated Hospitals
Medical Oncology, Harvard University, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Research Interests
Breast Cancer
Tumor Biomarker Tests
Liquid Biopsies
Tissue Related Genomic Assays
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