MacLean Sellars, MD

Dr. MacLean Sellars is a medical oncology fellow in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, as well as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Catherine Wu. MacLean grew up in southern California, before majoring in Biology and Sociology at Haverford College. He went on to receive a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Strasbourg, France, where he studied mechanisms of lymphocyte activation and B cell class switch recombination in the laboratory of Drs. Susan Chan and Philippe Kastner. Following his graduate studies he embarked on a post doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dan Littman (HHMI/NYU), using T cell development as a model system to understand the epigenetic regulation of cell fate decisions. During this post-doc, his mother’s life was cut short by advanced uterine cancer, which inspired him to pursue medicine and eventually medical oncology. He completed his MD at the David Geffen School of Medicine and his residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, before starting his fellowship in at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He is interested in understanding how the immune system recognizes ovarian cancers, and how we can improve immune targeting in ovarian cancer.